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Anjo City Library: Anforet
Anjo City Library: Anforet
Miyukihonmachi, Anjo, Japan
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Other Projects by MIKAMI Architects
Anjo City Library: Anforet
Miyukihonmachi, Anjo, Japan
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
Prism
Anjo City is right in the middle of the Mikawa Plains. The area of the countryside that was cultivated by Meiji irrigation water has professed itself to be Japan’s Denmark. Currently, an automobile company has been located, and the area has been transformed into the housing district for the company’s workers.
Although the site was developed in the city center, in front of the JR Anjo Station, the bustle of ancient times is being lost due to the proliferation of medical and commerce facilities in the neighboring area.
In order to recreate bustle in the city center and try to revitalize the shopping district, a complex equipped with 4 facilities: public facilities, private revenue facilities, an event square, and a parking lot was requested. We responded with building public facilities and the square on the north side, which faces the main street, so that the people could flow into the metropolitan area and the facilities and the town could form a close connection. Next, the private revenue facilities are located on the south side, and the parking garage is located in the center; these three buildings are connected at the second floor level and run beside the road on the east side.
At the center of the public facility is a five story building. The building is composed of a social space and hall on the first floor, floors two through four focus on library related activities, and the fifth floor serves as the main office. The first floor is open to the town, invites the crowds in, amplifies them, and releases them into the town. But, as you ascend to the upper levels, it is layered so that it becomes quieter.
Bricks were once manufactured from the impermeable layer that was dug up from under the countryside in the region that extended from Chita to Mikawa. To demonstrate the history of the area, we decided to start a “brick wall” on the ground of the square that is evocative of protrusions from the earth. Anjo City is also a famous place for Tanabata (Star Festival) that rivals Sendai and Hiratsuka. The checkered pattern of the glass cubes and how they jet out was an attempt to illustrate Tanabata decorations.
The glass cubes are prisms. A prism is a polyhedron made of a transparent medium that has a different refractive index from the surrounding space. In Japanese, it is also called “sanryōkyō” or “prism”, but originally carried the meaning, “kakuchū” or “polygonal pillar”. Just as a transparent polygonal pillar diffuses, bends, reflects, and double refracts the light that is different from the surrounding space, we hope to emit a new spectrum of gathering and transmitting information, knowledge, and social interactions with the existence of this architecture itself to create a new bustle in the town.
Anjo City is right in the middle of the Mikawa Plains. The area of the countryside that was cultivated by Meiji irrigation water has professed itself to be Japan’s Denmark. Currently, an automobile company has been located, and the area has been transformed into the housing district for the company’s workers.
Although the site was developed in the city center, in front of the JR Anjo Station, the bustle of ancient times is being lost due to the proliferation of medical and commerce facilities in the neighboring area.
In order to recreate bustle in the city center and try to revitalize the shopping district, a complex equipped with 4 facilities: public facilities, private revenue facilities, an event square, and a parking lot was requested. We responded with building public facilities and the square on the north side, which faces the main street, so that the people could flow into the metropolitan area and the facilities and the town could form a close connection. Next, the private revenue facilities are located on the south side, and the parking garage is located in the center; these three buildings are connected at the second floor level and run beside the road on the east side.
At the center of the public facility is a five story building. The building is composed of a social space and hall on the first floor, floors two through four focus on library related activities, and the fifth floor serves as the main office. The first floor is open to the town, invites the crowds in, amplifies them, and releases them into the town. But, as you ascend to the upper levels, it is layered so that it becomes quieter.
Bricks were once manufactured from the impermeable layer that was dug up from under the countryside in the region that extended from Chita to Mikawa. To demonstrate the history of the area, we decided to start a “brick wall” on the ground of the square that is evocative of protrusions from the earth. Anjo City is also a famous place for Tanabata (Star Festival) that rivals Sendai and Hiratsuka. The checkered pattern of the glass cubes and how they jet out was an attempt to illustrate Tanabata decorations.
The glass cubes are prisms. A prism is a polyhedron made of a transparent medium that has a different refractive index from the surrounding space. In Japanese, it is also called “sanryōkyō” or “prism”, but originally carried the meaning, “kakuchū” or “polygonal pillar”. Just as a transparent polygonal pillar diffuses, bends, reflects, and double refracts the light that is different from the surrounding space, we hope to emit a new spectrum of gathering and transmitting information, knowledge, and social interactions with the existence of this architecture itself to create a new bustle in the town.
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