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Saitama, Japan
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Sasame Workshop
Saitama, Japan
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Sasame Workshop
The scenery that softly drifts around what we consciously perceive often returns more vividly in memory or dreams than the object itself. This project gives form to that unconscious gaze—peripheral vision—within an industrial district. Through a balcony enclosed by varied polycarbonate panels and plantings, landscapes mediated at different resolutions emerge, resonating with the surrounding factories.
Memory and Landscape
When absorbed in work or conversation, do we truly notice the placement of furniture or the view from the window? Often, on nights after significant events, it is the trivial backgrounds that return most vividly in dreams. These ambient surroundings—hazy and ungraspable—seem to carry a quiet intensity beyond conscious perception.
In southwestern Toda City, on the left bank of the Arakawa River, the client—a local air-conditioning company—faced both a deteriorating office and an inefficient workspace. A skip-floor (split-level) configuration reduced overall height and volume while shaping a sectional form that connects sightlines, air, and light. Movable transparent partitions at the stairwell allow adjustments to temperature and comfort, reducing HVAC loads while subtly shifting views inside and out.
Avoiding Excessive Resolution
The second-floor workspace opens onto a balcony wrapped in planting, filtering southwestern sunlight and buffering neighboring factories. Like the terrace’s vegetation and distant greenery, the industrial scenery and mechanical hum are embraced as part of the environment.
Exterior walls and interior partitions use polycarbonate panels and glass of varying specifications, responding to wind and visibility needs. Plantings, weathered siding, the river embankment, rusted corrugated rooftops, and staggered interiors form layered, shifting scenes. The noise of nearby factories hums like a basso continuo, weaving into the landscape.
This relaxed, porous landscape—perceived through peripheral vision—creates pockets of openness where the imagination can alight, drifting between memory and the present.
“Peripheral vision integrates us with space, while focused vision pushes us out of the space, making us mere spectators.” Juhani Pallasmaa
The scenery that softly drifts around what we consciously perceive often returns more vividly in memory or dreams than the object itself. This project gives form to that unconscious gaze—peripheral vision—within an industrial district. Through a balcony enclosed by varied polycarbonate panels and plantings, landscapes mediated at different resolutions emerge, resonating with the surrounding factories.
Memory and Landscape
When absorbed in work or conversation, do we truly notice the placement of furniture or the view from the window? Often, on nights after significant events, it is the trivial backgrounds that return most vividly in dreams. These ambient surroundings—hazy and ungraspable—seem to carry a quiet intensity beyond conscious perception.
In southwestern Toda City, on the left bank of the Arakawa River, the client—a local air-conditioning company—faced both a deteriorating office and an inefficient workspace. A skip-floor (split-level) configuration reduced overall height and volume while shaping a sectional form that connects sightlines, air, and light. Movable transparent partitions at the stairwell allow adjustments to temperature and comfort, reducing HVAC loads while subtly shifting views inside and out.
Avoiding Excessive Resolution
The second-floor workspace opens onto a balcony wrapped in planting, filtering southwestern sunlight and buffering neighboring factories. Like the terrace’s vegetation and distant greenery, the industrial scenery and mechanical hum are embraced as part of the environment.
Exterior walls and interior partitions use polycarbonate panels and glass of varying specifications, responding to wind and visibility needs. Plantings, weathered siding, the river embankment, rusted corrugated rooftops, and staggered interiors form layered, shifting scenes. The noise of nearby factories hums like a basso continuo, weaving into the landscape.
This relaxed, porous landscape—perceived through peripheral vision—creates pockets of openness where the imagination can alight, drifting between memory and the present.
“Peripheral vision integrates us with space, while focused vision pushes us out of the space, making us mere spectators.” Juhani Pallasmaa
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