OKM: 4 story building designed for a private residence and apartment in Tokyo by Artechnic

Architects: Artechnic
Location: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Year: 2014
Photo courtesy: Noboru Inoue
Description:

OKM is a 4 story building intended for a private home and loft units situated in Tokyo. The first and second floor give a parking spot and 3 loft units, and the third and fourth floor hold the proprietor’s private space.

There is a pocket park over the south side road. The building is proposed to open up to this pocket park, in the meantime creating so as to restrict the eyes from the road level 3 layers of snare molded outside dividers setted on the exterior.

These snare formed outside dividers additionally express the inward spacial structure. The upper volume of the building contains twofold volume space. The opening of this space is characterized by this snare molded dividers which function as a louver intruding on the eyes from the road, in the meantime showing so as to constrain seeing the inhabitant the main greens of the recreation center.

There is a Large opening situated at the southeastern corner of the fourth floor to make a perspective for high rises in Shinjuku. The center area of the snare molded dividers, the even parts function as gallery piece and handrails, the profundity and tallness of these ones situated at the lower levels are all the more with the goal that they act as a security from the eyes of the road level.

Outside warmth Insulator and underfloor aerating and cooling are chosen, and the inside side of the divider and roofs were done as an uncovered cement. The difference made by the requested furniture, entryway and windows is the main component to characterizes the space of OKM, so the game plan of them is particularly considered.