Argento Architettura · 2023
Murakoshi Casa
- A' Design Award d'Argento 2023 in Architettura
- CLIENT: S Design Farm
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 17,606
- Verification code 07FC297021 · Verify this award
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About Murakoshi Casa
Una casa urbana che integra le acque alluvionali nel suo progetto. Questa casa con una facciata monolitica e un garage carrabile con un’alta fondazione è situata su un lotto d’angolo pentagonale che si prevede sarà affollato di pedoni. Il progetto è caratterizzato da un’apertura planare e trasversale per consentire alla luce e al vento di fluire all’interno, tenendo conto della comodità di persone e automobili e deviando l’acqua. Questo lavoro esplora un approccio semplice e ragionevole alle future abitazioni urbane, con particolare attenzione ai disastri naturali.
About the A' Design Award d'Argento
Murakoshi Casa ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Murakoshi Casa sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Murakoshi Casa è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.
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- Unique Properties
- An urban house integrating flood waters into its design.
The house, with its drive-through garage using a high foundation and monolithic facade that takes into account sight lines and sound, was designed to achieve safety and comfort for the client while creating a duality of open public and introverted private living spaces that maintain an appropriate sense of distance from the surrounding environment. This work explores a simple, yet make sense, future urban housing with an eye toward natural disasters. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The building use is a private residence for a couple.
The construction type is new construction. The structure is wooden, two stories above ground with a high foundation and a loft. The site area is 73.92m2 and the total floor area is 81.73m2. - Tags
- House, Urban, Flood waters, High foundation, Openness, Safety
- Production Technology
- In order to maximize the building-to-land ratio, a pentagonal plan configuration was chosen to match the site shape, and the cross-sectional configuration of the second floor and loft was selected in consideration of height restrictions, fire prevention regulations, and structural planning.
To minimize the impact on the building in the event of flooding, the first floor was planned with a high foundation.
The space was designed to make the most of the site conditions. - Design Challenge
- The Murakoshi House faced the challenge of how to create a safe and comfortable place to live, given its low elevation, the risk of flooding due to its location in a valley, and the dense surrounding area. Considering the effects of recent climate change and rising electricity costs, the key point was how to create comfort, and architectural innovations and facilities were planned to withstand these factors.
- Research
- In order to reduce running costs and the burden on the global environment, the insulation performance was set to a high level (insulation grade 6), and a level of almost no heating was implemented even in winter by minimizing the number of windows, using a Ua value of 0.37, using heat exchange ductless ventilation, and thorough air sealing measures.
- Inspiration
- Safety and Comfort from Openness.
The site is a pentagonal shaped site facing a three-way street with a lot of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and adjacent to a waterway that was predicted to flood, making it a complex intersection of various elements. Therefore, we created a three-dimensional openness to the elements of light, wind, people, cars, and water that surround the site, allowing light and wind to flow into the interior and creating an architecture that dodges water while considering convenience for people and cars. - Project Duration
- The design period for the Murakoshi House is six months, from November 2020 to April 2021. The construction period is seven months, from May 2021 to December 2021.
The planned site is located in Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan. It is located on the bottom of a mortar-shaped valley that stretches to the south of Senzoku Ike Pond. - Operation Flow
- Murakoshi House faced the challenge of how to create a safe and comfortable place to live, given its low elevation, the risk of flooding in the valley, and the densely populated surrounding area. In addition, taking into consideration the effects of recent climate change and rising electricity costs, the key point was how to create comfort, and architectural innovations and facilities were planned to withstand these factors.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Yasutaka Kojima, Variations, 2022.
Image #2: Photographer Koichi Torimura, Variations, 2022.
Image #3: Photographer Yasutaka Kojima, Variations, 2022.
Image #4: Photographer Yasutaka Kojima, Variations, 2022.
Image #5: Photographer Koichi Torimura, Variations, 2022.
