Name: Punctured
Introduction:
The apartment building in Gifu designed by
SANAA Architects tested the boundaries to original concepts throughout
apartment designers. Their mission was to create a building which would not
impose on the local environment through a light controlled designed with lots
of openness to it. By designing the building with terraces and balconies that
go from one side through to the other face allows light to pass through
creating the feeling that the building isn’t big and imposing on the local environment.
Another one of their concepts was to develop a systematic grid structure where
various aspects of apartments all fitted to this single sized module. By then
varying the layouts and floor plans of each apartment they were able to have
many variations that would suit each prospective family to live in. This also
ensured that they steered away from the systematic and structured look of many apartments
buildings and were able to develop a more interesting and varying façade. Through
this use of the grid with different styled apartments placed throughout
developed a lot of suspicion from local eyes as they were never quite able to
decide where each apartment started and finished.
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