Thursday 23 August 2012

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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