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Kanda Terrace
Kanda Terrace
Tokyo, Japan
Popular Winner, 2018 A+Awards, Details - Plus - Architecture +Facades
Project Featured on Sep 10, 2018
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Kanda Terrace
Tokyo, Japan
Popular Winner, 2018 A+Awards, Details - Plus - Architecture +Facades
Project Featured on Sep 10, 2018
Located in a central Tokyo neighborhood with many office buildings, this rental building for restaurants stands on a long, narrow lot, surrounded on three sides by streets.
A particular attention has been given to the facade of the new building. It has a recessed facade with three-dimensional stacked terraces, protruding into this space on each floor. The size and shape of these terraces vary by floor, creating a layered form that changes as it moves upward.
This dynamic facade was entirely made of glass allowing people to look into the restaurants. From the street, the terraces, real outside extensions to the restaurants space, appear to the facing street like a lively theater scene. The underside of the protruding spaces and terraces, very exposed to the street passerby, was a careful consideration of the design, and were finished with a smoked white ash wooden cladding, highlighted by the black joinery work of the building.
Because of its city-center location, this mid-rise building needed to be commercially efficient, occupying the entire permissible floor area ratio and filling that space with restaurant tenants on every floor. It was therefore essential to create the image of a building full of restaurants, to set up a bright and welcoming environment for visitors, and an attractive building for the passerby.
The sheltered terraces are connected with a strategically placed yet continuous gap link the terraces with above and below, allowing even diners on the higher floors to sense the people and cars passing on the street below and enjoy eating in a dynamic urban atmosphere.
In response to its context, the building, alike a porous volume, encourages the terraces on each floor to connect to the street and the larger neighborhood. In doing so, it aims to a new type of public character.
A particular attention has been given to the facade of the new building. It has a recessed facade with three-dimensional stacked terraces, protruding into this space on each floor. The size and shape of these terraces vary by floor, creating a layered form that changes as it moves upward.
This dynamic facade was entirely made of glass allowing people to look into the restaurants. From the street, the terraces, real outside extensions to the restaurants space, appear to the facing street like a lively theater scene. The underside of the protruding spaces and terraces, very exposed to the street passerby, was a careful consideration of the design, and were finished with a smoked white ash wooden cladding, highlighted by the black joinery work of the building.
Because of its city-center location, this mid-rise building needed to be commercially efficient, occupying the entire permissible floor area ratio and filling that space with restaurant tenants on every floor. It was therefore essential to create the image of a building full of restaurants, to set up a bright and welcoming environment for visitors, and an attractive building for the passerby.
The sheltered terraces are connected with a strategically placed yet continuous gap link the terraces with above and below, allowing even diners on the higher floors to sense the people and cars passing on the street below and enjoy eating in a dynamic urban atmosphere.
In response to its context, the building, alike a porous volume, encourages the terraces on each floor to connect to the street and the larger neighborhood. In doing so, it aims to a new type of public character.
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