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Eisuke Yamazaki Is Honored with the A' Design Award for KIBA Tokyo Residence Building in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Eisuke Yamazaki honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ KIBA Tokyo Residence Building by Eisuke Yamazaki, designed for SAKAE Architects & Engineers, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About KIBA Tokyo Residence Building
The project is to rebuild a residential building at a small site in KIBA Tokyo, Japan. Even though the size of the building is small, the different types of housings are being together in the same building, therefore, constructed the fine community of a residence in a city. In addition, the facade, especially the wooden louver, is designed in harmony with a specific site KIBA which was once known for lumber dealings. KIBA Tokyo Residence would make new values and new lifestyles from the inside (interior spaces), and to show the lost landscape and heritage from the outside (exterior spaces).
About Eisuke Yamazaki
SAKAE Architects & Engineers is a Japanese architectural firm based in Tokyo Japan, established in 1963. The firm has designed numerous works which are office buildings, public buildings, educational, residential, medical, commercial, industrial, and more. The firm provides various architectural services, as well as planning and design. CEO (Principal Architect) Eisuke Yamazaki has received a diploma of the Master of Architecture at Pratt Institute in New York, USA, after graduate school of architecture in Japan, also has a first-class architect license in Japan. He has received some international architecture awards.
Award Record
With this recognition, Eisuke Yamazaki is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/130639
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/130639
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!130639
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/317084
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.sakae-archi.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- KIBA Tokyo Residence Building
- Function
- Building
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Sky Blue and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- SAKAE Architects & Engineers
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Eisuke Yamazaki
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #130639
Credits
- Team
- Toshio Yoshikawa and Hiroshi Sakaguchi
- Image Credits
- Photo: Koji Fujii (Nacasa & Partners Inc.) Photo: Yuichi Higurashi
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a project to rebuild a residential building on a small site of Tokyo. For adaptation of the various lifestyles and improving the added value of the building, it was created multiple spaces by using exceptional cases of maisonnette style housing to the building standard law. The building was designed in harmony with the historic site, known for lumber dealings. This project would try to make new values and new lifestyles from the inside, and to show historic and cultural heritage from the outside.
- Inspiration
- This project will reconstruct a small residential building on a small site in the metropolitan area of Tokyo Japan. It explores the possibility of making a small residence in the city center in something completely new that creates a rich atmosphere and spaces together with a landscape and history around it. It also attempts to depict the classic Japanese landscape that has been lost due to the modernization of the city. This architectural concept will become a model of global architecture.
- Research
- It has been the problems of the deterioration of old buildings and the excessive number of open spaces on a small site in Tokyo lately. The majority of these properties have been destroyed during urban renewal. In this project, the design was endeavoring to explore the capability of a small fascinating residence on a small site in the center of Tokyo. At the same time, this building was designed not only attempting to endeavor the capability of a small residence in a city, also putting effort into re-creating the landscape of Edo Tokyo Kiba which was disappeared.
- Challenge
- From the point of view of the structural design, it was difficult to realize the construction of a seven-story reinforced concrete building with four columns on a small site and fragile ground. In terms of details of the wooden louvers, which has about three meters lengths located in twenty-three meters high (max), there are supported simply by fixing only the upper and lower ends taking into account a wind pressure and a load bearing capacity, in order to re-create the old landscape such as the image of lumber standing in front of a lumber wholesaler's store.
- Realization and Technology
- Reinforced-concrete, Wooden Louver
- Operation and Interaction
- This building was designed the structure with multiple spaces based on the lifestyle despite the strict restrictions given by the size of the site. In particular, this building is managed to have three different types of housing, namely a residence for one person, a couple and a family with children in a single building. This was done by utilizing exceptional cases of maisonnette style housing to the building standard law. Although the size of the building is small, the various types of housing are being built together, therefore, constructed the fine community of a residence in a city.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2016 and finished in 2019, and is located in Tokyo Japan.
- Specifications
- Function: Residence + Retail shop, Scale: 7 stories, Structure: Reinforced-concrete, Site Area: 72.97 sqm, Building Area: 58.17 sqm, Floor Area: 385.52 sqm
- Keywords
- Residential, House, Small, Building, Wooden, Louver, Grids, Architecture, Japanese modern, Japan
