Silver Architecture · 2024
Grand Tsuru Niseko Ski Villa
- Silver A' Design Award 2024 in Architecture
- CLIENT: ABD Architecture LLC
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 23,430
- Verification code 1FE4E4F3B3 · Verify this award
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About Grand Tsuru Niseko Ski Villa
Located minutes away from Niseko's international ski slopes and surrounded by silver birches, these 3 exclusive ski rental properties boast a harmonious design with extended eaves and a light wood structure, inspired by the graceful flight of the crane, from which they derive their name, Grand Tsuru. Each offers a spacious living area with tall windows providing picturesque views, two bedrooms adorned in Japanese style, and a master bedroom featuring a large Japanese tiled bath. The staircase, bathed in light, seamlessly connects and brightens all corners of the skip floor properties.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Grand Tsuru Niseko Ski Villa is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Grand Tsuru Niseko Ski Villa is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Grand Tsuru Niseko Ski Villa is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The development Grand Tsuru, meaning Crane in Japanese, seamlessly blends Japanese elegance with nature. Minutes from ski slopes, the three 250 m2 properties, feature a harmonious design with extended eaves and wood louvers, a spacious living area, two bedrooms and a Japanese style master bedroom. The central staircase connects all levels of the skip floor property. Beyond a residence, Grand Tsuru embodies cultural grace and natural beauty in Niseko's snow haven.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Internal floor area 230.63 m2
Construction floor area 250.55 m2
18.046 m length x 8.314 m width - Tags
- niseko, ski, resort, villa, chalet, japan, hokkaido, abd, luxury, property
- Production Technology
- This project was designed using mostly the Building Information Modeling software Revit, with which the entire project was modeled in 3D and building approval and construction drawing sets produced, as well as the rendering software Twinmotion, with a Path Tracing rendering output.
- Design Challenge
- One critical objective for this project was to capture the enchanting views of the surrounding forest, while preserving privacy from the public road and among the bespoke properties. This was achieved through four simple steps:
1. Longitudinal building shape
2. Setback of buildings
3. Semi-blind wall on one longitudinal wall
4. Shift to open laterally the view - Research
- As our first ever building project with a traditional Japanese timber structure, we took special care and time to model the entire building's structure in 3D, including the concrete foundation, the timber framing, the roof structure, as well as all the assemblies, to ensure it stayed discreet and blended in the interior design.
- Inspiration
- Grand Tsuru seamlessly weaves together the grace of Japanese culture and the awe-inspiring beauty of nature. The name itself, meaning crane in Japanese, encapsulates the essence of the project. As a crane taking flight, the properties exude a sense of weightlessness of the traditional Japanese timber framing, accentuated by the extended eaves, and the striking verticality of metal cladding, tall windows, and natural wood louvers adorning the facades.
- Project Duration
- The project is planned to start construction in May 2024 and finished in November 2024.
The property is situated in Niseko town, Hokkaido, Japan. - Operation Flow
- This property is primarily meant for a winter use, as a ski rental property. It thefore boasts a snow shedding roof, covered balconies, a ski room and a garage.
Since the property is planned to be built in a cold climate area, a special emphasis was taken to ensure a warm internal environment, with increased insulation and underfloor heating. - Patents
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