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On the corner \ EASTERN design office
Keyhole House \ EASTERN design office
The Patient Gardener \ Visiondivision
Bookbox Loft \ mode:lina architekci

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 09:20 AM PDT

We want to highlight the discarded lot from the urban framework by emphasizing its shape, building architecture similar to illusion. An illusion required by the town people. Reality that is similar to an illusion that one town has something to do with someone.
EASTERN design office

A castle where the boys and girls of the story of Michael Ende could be entering. It is a triangular building configured by the square elements!

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

On the corner

The site is a manufacturing area in Youkaichi City in?Shiga Prefecture. There are many big factories in this town. A lot of immigrants from South America live here among the local people.

This is a residential area as well an industrial area. It is also a popular drinking area where many bars and restaurants for such common people are scattered. There is a highway interchange nearby the town. The shape of the lot is a sharp triangle which is unusual for building a house.

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

The site is a wedge-shaped flatiron lot which remained at a corner where two streets meet at an acute angel. It was left behind neither residential nor for industrial development. No one wanted to buy it, and the public sector would not invest to change it into a park: a lot remained bereft of life for a long time.

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

The elevation of this building takes the shape of the triangle plot. It is a triangular residential complex of 13 meters height with the base line 23m x height 12m x oblique line 26m. It is a typical tenanted apartment house with seven rooms, 1-3rd two units on each floor and one on the 4th floor.

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

Each room is composed of a living room of 13 m2, two bed rooms with 13 m2 and 9m2, a prefabricated bathroom, a kitchen system and a toilet. They are planned to be easy to rent for town people.

The concrete which serves as a structure is designed carefully. Other than that specific materials are not used here. The exterior wall is made out of square cut stone, concrete and glass formed like scattered cards on it. They are bound by a "cross" so that the spread out material would not disjoin.
It looks like a present, a toy box or a castle where the boys and girls of the story of Michael Ende could be entering. It is a triangular building configured by the square elements. The cross confines the power of the mixed materials into one.

A shuffle of stones, concretes, and glass. Keen edge of each material is too sharp. A shuffle of mass and void. The design "on the corner" consists of blue and the cross.

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

A composition of line and plane surface is created by the clearly distinguished edges of the material.

The confusing imagination is created to make the so far disregarded place interesting, which lies at the corner of messy scenery in an inner city.

It belongs to no one.
It is nothing.
It does not belong to anything.
It does not belong to any country.

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

The edge of the triangular pyramid is like a wrecked boat, a fictional tip of a boat as if it were escaping from town. Where on earth is here?

A corner that makes you feel you are nowhere at the end of the world, where no one can go further anymore. It is far from the center of town, a place which makes you wonder where you are. It is a place to make the town to be nowhere but only here, and it makes you feel like a distinguished person.

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On the corner, image courtesy EASTERN design office

We want to highlight the discarded lot from the urban framework by emphasizing its shape, building architecture similar to illusion. An illusion required by the town people. Reality that is similar to an illusion that one town has something to do with someone.

It seems as if this illusion deceives people to obscure their eyesight and feel invited to another world. It is pretentious, yet it is surrealistic too.

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On the corner - Floor plan, drawing courtesy EASTERN design office

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On the corner - Detail, drawing courtesy EASTERN design office

+ Project credits / data

Project: On the corner
Location: Shiga, Japan
Completion: 2011
Client: TOYO-KAIHATSU Co., ltd
Site area: 261m2
Total floor area: 567 m2
Structure planning: HOJO STRUCTURE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Photographer: Koichi Torimura
Constructor: Okudakomuten Co., Ltd

+ All images and drawings courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

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Keyhole House \ EASTERN design office

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 08:32 AM PDT

Japanese architectural practice EASTERN design office has recently completed the Keyhole House. The facade of this house has the shape of a keyhole. A key to open “my house”, which is standing along a narrow street of a crowded town, is designed as a key itself on the façade of this house. A house can be called a key, which will open up your life happily. Such a small key, this house is a key!

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Keyhole House, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

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Keyhole House, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

The site is in Kyoto, Japan. It is a small house for four people and two cats. It has only 100 square meters of floor space. It is standing alone in the corner of a small parking lot like a table left behind at the seaside.

The façade is marked by a window shaped like a key.
Mortar with sumi ink is applied to the exterior wall.
Simple color coding. Red and purple are used as an accent.
The triangle roof.
Random arrangement of small windows.
The edge to make the shape of this house clearer.

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Keyhole House, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

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Keyhole House, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

There is a thin steel eave which is fixed to the façade of this house as if it is floating, and a key-shaped slit like a "picture", crossing over the eave. A red wine-colored door. These are laid out like a beautiful pattern designed on a jewel box.

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Keyhole House, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

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Keyhole House, image courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

You sometimes will see a cat lying by the window at this house. You wonder what she is watching. Do you still have a naïve heart with a key to open this house?

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Keyhole House - Floor plans, drawing courtesy EASTERN design office

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Keyhole House - Section, drawing courtesy EASTERN design office

+ Project credits / data

Project: Keyhole House
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Architect: EASTERN design office
Site Area: 90.81 m²
Total Floor Area: 103.47 m²
Structural Engineering: EASTERN design officeContractor: arcc
Photographer: Koichi Torimura

+ All images and drawings courtesy EASTERN design office | Photo by Koichi Torimura

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The Patient Gardener \ Visiondivision

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Visiondivision was invited as guest professors by Politecnico di Milano for their week-long workshop MIAW2.

The workshop, playing with the metaphor of forests, aimed to generate new visions to explain the contemporary and immediate future ways of being in the spirit of green design, resilience, recycling, and ethical consciousness.

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The Patient Gardener, image courtesy Visiondivision

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The Patient Gardener, image courtesy Visiondivision

Our intention with our project was to construct a study retreat at the campus with patience as the main key for the design. If we can be patient with the building time we can reduce the need for transportation, waste of material and different manufacturing processes, simply by helping nature grow in a more architectonic and useful way. The final result can be enjoyed at Politecnico di Milano in about 60 years from now.

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The Patient Gardener, image courtesy Visiondivision

During the workshop we gave nature all the guidance and directions to help it grow into useful structures and objects.

There are different methods and tools to guide and control the growth of trees and plants; bending, twisting, pruning, grafting, braiding, weaving and to control the amount of water and light the trees get are just some examples of these.

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The Patient Gardener, image courtesy Visiondivision

We used almost all of these techniques in our creation, which involved creating a structural system for the building and also stairs and furniture, all made out of trees, plants or grass.

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The Patient Gardener, drawing courtesy Visiondivision

Our structural frame for this project became ten Japanese cherry trees that was planted in a circle with a diameter of eight meters with a six meter high temporary wood structure in the center that is acting as a guidance tower for the growing structure.

The trees were planted with an equal spacing from each other, except for four of them that became two pairs of stairs to the future upper level.

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The Patient Gardener, image courtesy Visiondivision

The cherry trees was ideal to plant at that time of year and also had great features for achieving the desired structure. Thin ropes were tied around the plants and were slightly bent towards the temporary tower.

As time passes the trees will form a dome when they reach the tower, and then designated by to change its direction so the final form will be an hourglass, a suiting shape for the project and also a very practical form as we now have two rooms with different modes in the building.

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The Patient Gardener, drawing courtesy Visiondivision

The small branches on the plants that will grow into stairs are guided with wires to each other and will hopefully be useful later on. The rest of the stairs can later be grafted in the stair trees. On the ground level we designed furniture out of grass, trees and plants. There are a dining group consisting of a table with four chairs. The chairs are plum trees where one sit at the lowest fork and the branches are guided into canopies so the future visitor can sit in the chair while at the same time eating delicious fruits.

The table is made out of slender wooden pieces with strings in the structure, which forms a skeleton where hedras can grow and later take over the structure completely. A comfortable chair made out of grass are located on the other side of the ground floor. The grass chair is put together with the use of a custom made cardboard structure, shaped for maximal relaxation and that is painted with a protection coating and that is later filled with soil on site and draped with grass. A grass puff is also made and placed in the tower where the floor of the upper level will be.

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The Patient Gardener, drawing courtesy Visiondivision

The puff is a big potato bag filled with straw, soil, fertilizer and grass seed. An organic rope is placed with a third of its length inside the bag, and the bag is later sewn together.

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The Patient Gardener, image courtesy Visiondivision

The rest of the rope is placed in water so the puff gets water and will later be covered in grass, so when the trees finally reaches this level and becomes the floor, it will already be furnished.

Together with the students we worked out a maintenance plan and instructions to future gardeners that is simple enough to actually work.

On the structure, we instructed that a pattern of wood will be grafted in, leaving two spaces between the trees as entries/exits and the rest is closed in ornamental patterns with branches.

On the upper level which is reached by the two staircases with exquisite handrails, is different fruit trees grafted into the cherry trees so the visitor can have a variety of fruits while relaxing in the canopy. Branches are also grafted in for security reasons between the tree trunks.

In about 80 years from now the Politecnico di Milano campus will have a fully grown building and the students will hopefully have proud grandchildren that can tell the story of the project for their friends and family.

+ Project credits / data

Partners in charge: Anders Berensson & Ulf Mejergren
Curators: Laura Daglio & Oscar Bellini
Students/Architects/Builders: Rachele Albini, Giada Albonico, Jacopo Biasio, Sara Caramaschi, Elisa Carraro, Desislava Dimitrova, Cristina Gatti, Elisa Gulino, Mariya Hasamova, Nina Mikhailova, Ottavia Molatore, Joao Molinar, Azadeh Moradiasr, Mohyedin Navabzadeh Navabi, Giuseppe Maria Palermo, Riccardo Somaini, Bogdan Stojanovic
Organizers: Luca Maria Francesco & Fabris Efisia Cipolloni
Location: Politecnico di Milano
Project area: 50 sqm
Project year: 2011-2090

+ All images and drawings courtesy Visiondivision

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Bookbox Loft \ mode:lina architekci

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:31 AM PDT

mode:lina architekci proudly presents Bookbox Loft.

The client unconsciously dictated to mode:lina the design.

We love open space and flexible solutions, but we need cosy rooms and privacy as well.
We love to be noisy; talk loudly while eating, listen to loud music etc. but at the same time J. Is an early bird and I’m a night owl and we are both light sleepers.
We love and owe a lot of books, clothes, shoes and other cool stuff but but we have only 70 m2.
Oh, did I mention, that we just can’t stand the sound of slamming doors?

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Bookbox Loft, image courtesy mode:lina architekci | Photo by Marcin Ratajczak

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Bookbox Loft, image courtesy mode:lina architekci | Photo by Marcin Ratajczak

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Bookbox Loft, image courtesy mode:lina architekci | Photo by Marcin Ratajczak

To fulfill all the requirements architects of mode:lina decided to divide 70 m2 flat into 4 zones that can be easily opened and closed with sliding doors. This solution provides privacy and acoustic barrier as well as flexibility in use of space.

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Bookbox Loft, image courtesy mode:lina architekci | Photo by Marcin Ratajczak

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Bookbox Loft, image courtesy mode:lina architekci | Photo by Marcin Ratajczak

Central zone includes kitchen with dining room and a mysterious black box. The dark cube integrates
the wardrobe, small library, working desk and a small kennel.

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Bookbox Loft - Layout plan, drawing courtesy mode:lina architekci

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Bookbox Loft - diagram, drawing courtesy mode:lina architekci

3 other zones are:
1 – living room
2 – walk-in closet
3 – bathroom / bedroom

Early bird and night owl live in peace.

+ Project credits / data

PROJECT: Bookbox Loft
DESIGN: mode:lina architekci (Pawel Garus & Jerzy Wozniak) | http://modelina-architekci.com/
COMPLETION : May 2011
NET AREA : 70 m2
PHOTOS : Marcin Ratajczak (www.pfmarcinratajczak.fott.pl)

+ All images and drawings courtesy mode:lina

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