Without altering the existing floor, wall or ceiling (including the lights and the air conditioners), I placed some new rooms in the center of the space.
The new rooms are required to be closed spaces because of their purposes. So I bent in the upper part of the partition in order that the sectional form of each room might taper off as it goes upward and in order to feel a "closed mass of air" which we can't usually feel from the room with a normal vertical partition.
This operation, which is meant to form the inside of the rooms, also shapes the outside directly. An outward form like a collection of gabled cabins or a mountain range will appear by placing the sectional form mentioned above side by side.
In addition, this symbolic 'mountain range' is placed diagonally in the office space, becoming a thick partition which divides the site into work space and common space.
‘Rooms’, ‘Symbol’, ‘Partition’.
Whatever the main function may be, the quality of this space is secured by the mountain range mass at its center.
completion : 08.2007
location : Tokyo Japan
use : office
area : 160.92㎡

client : YURAS
constructor : YUMU
photographer : Hiroshi UEDA

[ awards ]
Good Design Award 2008 (Japan) Winning
JCD DESIGN AWARD 2008 (Japan) Shortlisted
DISPLAY DESIGN AWARD 2008 (Japan) Shortlisted

[ publications ]
Real Design Nov,2009 (Japan)
Designers' #1 spring,2009 (Japan)
MARU #82 (Korea)
Real Design Mar,2008 (Japan)
Good Design Award Yearbook 2008-2009 (Japan)
iA #12 (Japan)
MONITOR #52 (Russia)
Annual of Space Design in Japan (Japan)
INTERIOR DESIGN OF JAPANESE ARCHITECT (Japan)
DESIGN OFFICE #2 (Japan)
iSh #126 (Singapore)
SHOTENKENCHIKU Oct,2007 (Japan)
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YURAS
office / 2007.08