Halftecture O / Shuhei Endo
Architects: Shuhei Endo
Location: Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan
Structure System: Suspended Steel Sheet
Project year: 2005
Principal use: Public Lavatory
Site Area: 580 sqm
Constructed Area: 103 sqm
Photographs: Shuhei Endo
This work of architecture consists of a single flat steel sheet made of anticorrosive steel. Truss-shaped structural walls composed of 25mm-thick steel sheet have been set at the right and left ends, and a catenary curve made of 16mm- thick steel sheet spans the 20m gap between these support points.
Toilet booths have been set in the open space obtained below. The outer faces of the right and left walls, upon which the roof has been placed, and inclined toward each other, and during construction the shapes were fixed and joined after they had twisted and warped under the effects of gravity.
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- floor plan
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- steel sheet diagram
Wow what a great construction i´d like to take a … nevermind ;)
I have a small, nagging worry about a lot of snow falling on the roof (but surely they’ve thought of that); otherwise I like this very, very much.
Fortunately, snow never happens in Osaka.
the city of Osaka is in an almost humid-warmer climate. in a year, highest temp is 22.4 °C, lowest temp is 14.2 °C, annual rainfall is around 132.9 mm.
Thus, if this light structure could respond to this ample precipitation, like water harvestation system, for the toilet-washoff, that would be a potential idea.
It’s a nice shape, but it’s actually not so exciting to me for some reason.
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Nicely done.
That is all.
Shuhei Endo has been busy lately! I’ve always enjoyed the simplicity of his work. This is the steel version of Alvaro Siza’s concrete Portuguese National Pavilion.
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I love it!
More for the details inside than for the steel sheet.
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