Garden Omotesando

GARDEN 表参道 店舗 ビル

(c) Takumi Ota

  • The Garden Nakameguro

    中目黒は都内で若者に最も人気のある街である。この中目黒の駅から程近い場所に単身向けの共同住宅を建てるというご相談をいただいた。
    単身者用の共同住宅の住戸面積はどうしても小さくなりがちだが、どの住戸にも専用のバルコニーと大きな開口部を設け明るくすることにより、実際よりも広く感じる住戸環境を実現している。また、水回りは乳白のグラデーションフィルムを張ったガラス張りにしているため、室内からの視線を遮りながらも、洗面室や浴室にも光が広がるようになった。
    建物のボリュームは前面道路から2段階にセットバックさせ、周囲の環境に対して威圧感を与えないように配慮すると同時に、セットバックにより生まれた屋上を各住戸が自由に使用できるルーフバルコニーとしている。さらに、建物と前面道路の間や、建物の裏側にはささやかな緑地帯を設け、周囲の環境に貢献しているだけでなく、この緑地帯は道路から1階住戸への視線を緩やかに隠す役割もある。今後、セットバックされた二つのルーフバルコニーにも住み手によってたくさんの植栽が置かれ「ガーデン」という名に相応しい共同住宅になっていくだろう。

    The complex was planned to face an L-shaped alleyway running from Omotesando to Uraharajuku in Tokyo.
    The L-shaped vacant lot is located at the corner of the alley, and the L-shaped building is arranged so as to nestle into the vacant lot. In addition to the vacant space on the ground floor, open spaces were created on the second and third floors and on the rooftop, and the design was developed with the image of a retail space where indoor and outdoor activities progress in parallel. The aim was to create a place where the flow of people would gradually increase, and where the flow would be moderately stagnant.
    The façade facing the L-shaped alley is made of glass in order to make the indoor and outdoor activities as equivalent as possible. A simple construction is used, with a 70-thick concrete filling between the glass on the upper and lower floors and hot-dip galvanised steel plates fixed as a curtain wall. The simplest detail was chosen as a result of considering various delivery methods in the face of stricter fire regulations for curtain walls and sashes. Most of the 125 x 125 ST columns and 125 x 250 ST beams are sprayed with fireproof coating and as close to the glass as possible. The fireproofing was sprayed on most of the 125x125 ST columns and 125x250 ST beams. This is of course to maximise the effective area of the shop while using inexpensive materials and fireproof specifications, but it is also in the hope that the dissonance created by the proximity between the ‘roughness’ of the fireproof cladding and the ‘smoothness’ of the glass will give the building and the shops within it a factory-like character. The building is a factory.