Creating an Impression of being Covered with Thin Layers of Light
A company manufacturing zip ties and packing materials ini- tially planned to build a two-story steel oice building, but later decided on a suburban-style oice with greater comfort. The design features a cuboid with an 18m x 18m square plan lifted of the ground by 1.2m, in consideration of the heavy traic of large trucks in the site and the surrounding environment. In order to achieve high environmental eiciency, individual rooms are laid out along the outer perimeters and the under-floor plenum is utilised to accommodate an efficient building equipment system.
The oice space is composed of massive reciprocal beams made of ive layers of plywood above 3meter high wall-columns. Narrow top lights between the beams bring sunlight as if coming down through a forest. The exterior finish comprises four kinds of tropical wood and aluminum angle bars to create an impression of being covered with thin layers of light, as well as to generate multiple changes according to viewing distance and angles.
Project Information
Project Name: Tsukasa Chemical Industry Tsukuba Technical Center
Location: Japan
Architect: Hideki Yoshimatsu
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