-오브 토라노몬 [ ETHNOS ] AUBE Toranomon Residential Building

ETHNOS-AUBE Toranomon Residential Building

 

오브 토라노몬은 도시 재개발이 진행 주이며 많은 고층 건물이 건설되고 있는 도쿄 도심 지역에 위치하고 있다. 건축가는 이 임대 주거용 건물에서 다양한 유형의 라이프 스타일을 허용하여 거주자와 도시 사이의 조화로운 사회적 연겨을 만들 수 있도록 설계했다. 이 주거 프로젝트는 사회에 기여하기 위해 도시에 매우 개방되어 생활 환경을 풍요롭게 하는 것을 목표로 한다. 프로젝트명 오브는 새벽을 뜻하는 프랑스어에서 따왔다. 건축가는 이 주택이 사람과 도시를 밝히길을 바란다.

아파트의 각 유닛에서 공용공간과 사적공간을 명확하게 구분하여 개별 임차인의 요구 사항에 대한 유연성을 제공한다. 공공공간과 사적공간의 레이어가 파사드에 나타난다. 폐쇄된 사적 층은 건축 면적 비율의 한계까지 확장되는 반면, 공공 층에는 녹색 식물이 도시의 녹지의 순서를 나타내는 전면 정원과 발코니가 있다.

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The AUBE Toranomon is situated in an area in downtown Tokyo, where urban renewal is ongoing, and many high rises are being built. However, in the close vicinity of the site are found many lower buildings. The architect designs to allow various types of lifestyles in this rental residential building to create a harmonious social connection between the residents and the city.

 

The project began before the COVID-19 pandemic. Drastic changes in lifestyle, especially the workstyle such as working at home increasing and the border between the living space and the working space much ambiguous, involve good and bad aspects. Reduction in both commuting time and environmental loads is certainly beneficial while making it difficult to separate privacy from a working environment, and physical and spatial issues. The architect, together with the client, has introduced a series of rental commercial spaces ''ESCALIER'' to provide a good balance between economic efficiency and a better working environment in a way well adapted and connected to the neighborhood. This residential project aims to enrich the living environment by being very open to the city to contribute to society. The name of the project “AUBE” comes from a French word, which means dawn. The architect hopes that the AUBE will light up the people and the city.

 

In each unit of the apartment, public space and private space are clearly divided to provide flexibility for the needs of the individual tenants. The building consists of three types of duplex apartments, which are on the basement/first floor, the second/third floor, and the fourth/roof floor. The entrance of each apartment is located on the first floor and　the third floor. Inside the entrance space of each apartment, there ­is a space, which can be used as a living room but also as a space for remote working or as a studio or a hobby room, or even any kind of usage, which does not necessarily require privacy.

 

The staircase within each duplex apartment leads to a space of a private character. The unit has a box-in-box structure. To provide a connection to the city i.e., the outer world, and to help transmit information, the entrance door adopts a transparent glass door on the first floor, and a wide-open folding door on the third floor. On the second and fourth floors as a private space, the façade is closed with a glass curtain wall, which harmonizes with other high buildings in the neighborhood. As a result, layers of public space and private space appear on the façade. While the closed private floor expands to the limit of the building coverage ratio, the public floors have front gardens and balconies where the green plants represent the sequence of the greenery in the city.

 

By using a stair or an elevator along the atrium you can reach the common space on the third floor, and this void space provides light and wind to the apartments. The building has a wall-type frame structure so that no protrusion occurs in the interior. The structural wall in the middle of the apartment, from the basement to the second floor, serves as an important partition for the space as well. Due to the shade regulation, the ceiling height is limited to 2.5m but the beams are integrated into the walls to make them invisible, and the opening to the street side has flat pre-stressed concrete beams which do not bother the interior.

 

From the form of the land piece, the frontage of the building is divided into three units. The unit on the east side is folded because of the emergency evacuation space and the fourth floor is set back due to the sky factor regulation. To highlight the volume on the second and the fourth floors the curtain wall is sash-less. The architect designs a lounge and a meeting room as a communicative space for the residents and their guests. This is a project, which realizes a rich living environment and at the same time, it offers an opportunity for the residents to become connected to society while they live inside the building.

 

Photograpy by Keishin Horikoshi, SS Inc

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