Ftown Building / Atelier Hitoshi Abe

Jul 2009

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Architect: Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Location: Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Japan
Project team: Hideo Yaguchi, Azuma Orikasa
Collaborator: Asao Tokolo(façade design)
Structural Design: Arup Japan
Construction: Iwata Chizaki Construction Corporation Tohoku
Site Area: 377 sqm
Project Area: 1,977 sqm
Design Year: 2003-2006
Completion Date: 2007-2008
Photographs: Daici Ano

In designing tenant buildings for which the interiors will be determined afterwards, rather than defining the spaces, it is important that there is a wide spatial potential. For example, the freedom to build walls in any arrangement is more important than how the walls are actually arranged.

tree diagram

A typical tenant building has a tree-like organization in which each floor is independently accessed by elevator from the entrance at the first floor. With regard to this project, in addition to the normal circulation, we proposed using voids to connect the spaces of each floor in a spiral arrangement, incorporating a loop in the unidirectional ordered structure. The access routes to each space are thereby multiplied; other possibilities for grouping the spaces arise, enabling integrated usages or tenants that cover several floors. Additionally, the four variations in floor height and the flexibly organized mechanical services allow a variety of spatial choices.

: plans 01

: plans 02

: north & east elevations

: west & south elevations

: section

: pattern detail

: tree diagram

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "Ftown Building / Atelier Hitoshi Abe" 14 Jul 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/28827>

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Chiaro Scuro says:

Hell Yes!

# July 14, 2009 at 13:03

pencil_nek (twitter) says:

FABULOUS!

# July 14, 2009 at 13:14

Marian says:

I like this building interesting both formally and structurally .

# July 14, 2009 at 13:39

Really Nice !!! Great building and nice structure !!!!

# July 14, 2009 at 13:40

ah says:

wait.. i thought that was a zaha hadid building?

hmmph

# July 14, 2009 at 13:47

ahmed says:

me tooo oooooooooooo

# August 16, 2009 at 15:53

ziga says:

exactly the same with a project of zaha haddid

# March 23, 2010 at 20:15

MAPS says:

It remind me one building…Zaha Hadid´s Contemporary Art Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Although I think Hitoshi Abe, is better…

# July 14, 2009 at 13:54

Ala says:

Orthogonal still rules, I think, although the current trend is more on the side of curvy, organic, dia-grid form.

# July 14, 2009 at 14:37

Gustavo Assunção says:

looks like Petrobras building in Rio

http://images.google.com.br/images?sourceid=navclient&hl=pt-BR&rlz=1T4GGLL_pt-BRBR318BR318&q=petrobras%20building&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

# July 14, 2009 at 14:43

Troy Lemieur says:

Not really….

# July 14, 2009 at 20:46

StructureHub Blog says:

The patterned white facade does add some nice texture. Its a bit more original than the usual stucco, etc.

# July 14, 2009 at 15:24

Scarpasez says:

It looks like the New Museum in New York, with its volumes shifting to reveal differentiated glazing. Interesting.

# July 14, 2009 at 16:48

Fino says:

@MAPS

I was thinking the same the thing. It’s like a Sejima and Hadid hybrid.

# July 14, 2009 at 18:05

Dennis says:

Call it Zaha Hadid Lights :)

# July 14, 2009 at 23:22

Rahul J says:

super… love it
why compare with zaha or anyone else.

# July 15, 2009 at 03:24

d says:

very nice indeed… and i’m with rahul J, why compare? it derived from absolutely different terms..

# July 15, 2009 at 05:18

jaisim says:

Interesting and adventurous, very much like what we have been professing and practicing in our small low rise tenements for over 40 years

# July 15, 2009 at 07:21

Shreyas Srivatsa says:

Would love to see them. Could you please upload them on Archdaily. Just a humble request.

Thank You

# September 24, 2010 at 01:16

DaleP says:

I was impressed the way the building moves in section, it’s great to see someone playing with volumes in spaces you wouldn’t think existed. I only wish that the vertical movement was as exciting as the space itself. The perimeter stair to me seems like an afterthought to the rest of the building. Otherwise super building.

# July 15, 2009 at 13:43

thanhtran says:

oh …. very impressive! way design application block’s architecture combines special empty, am I really gracious and luxurious, I love this building take

# July 16, 2009 at 00:21

RT says: