Asakusa Apartment

Tokyo, Japan

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Asakusa Apartment

Tokyo, Japan

Firm

PANDA - Person and Architecture

Type

Residential › Apartment

YEAR

2013

This is an apartment building in a commercial area in the historical town district of
Asakusa, Tokyo. Our clients, a couple in their 60’s, requested us to design their “final
home” to enjoy the rest of their lives happily and comfortably, with attached rental
housing units to secure a regular income after retirement. The site is placed adjacent to a
park across the frontal road on the south side, while being surrounded by tall
commercial buildings on three sides.
After reviewing the balance between construction cost and rental income, we decided
to allocate some portion of their property for rental car parking for a steady income, and
use the rest to construct a building comprised of the client's home and a rental apartment
unit.
The building is a two-story wooden construction, and our challenge is to build a
wooden “curtain wall” facade, which would be atypical of regular wooden construction.
It is because we intend to achieve the following purposes; one is to open up the facade
to integrate the beautiful view of the park into the interior space: and another is that the
facade is expected to act as a sort of “advertisement board” to promote a well-designed
living environment of the apartment.
The building is comprised of two duplex housing units stacked vertically. Plans on 1F
and 2F are flipped horizontally, except for a fixed position of the bathroom, toilet and
stairs in the back, in order to locate lofts, in-floor storage and balconies effectively.
Bearing walls on the front side are located between the stairs to the loft space and the
bedroom, which are placed symmetrically in section.
Seen from the frontal road, the enclosed boxes containing different functions are
visible through the open curtain wall. It seems as if the facade becomes a picture frame
in which lives inside the building emerge like vivid motifs of a painting, against the
background of monotonous commercial buildings.
Architects : PANDA
Architect In Charge:Kozo Yamamoto
Location :Tokyo,Japan
StructuralEngineer: a・s・t atelier
Contractor: B・L home
Structure:Two-story wooden
Total Floor Area: 94.62 sqm
BuildingArea: 87.71sqm
Year:2013
Photographer:Koichi Torimura

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