![Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! + TKY JAPAN - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5316/6ff3/c07a/80fc/cb00/006d/medium_jpg/17.jpg?1393979359)
- Area: 61 m²
- Year: 2011
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Photographs:Hiroki Kawata
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Text description provided by the architects. This is a new construction of a Pharmacy, in the center of Osaka city area of Japan.
![Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! + TKY JAPAN - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5316/6fd4/c07a/80fc/cb00/006c/medium_jpg/16.jpg?1393979327)
The site once used to be a farm road. When the World War II ended, a small house was built on the road and stayed there illegally for several ten years. After the house was removed, the site then became a residential land.
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In front of this newly built pharmacy, there are remains of a sidewalk, which define an original function of the site used to have, thus the building is set back.
That the site was a road, and that there was a small illegally-built house, were the two historical contexts we valuated as the uniqueness of the site. The form of the building follows the shape of the site with a gabled roof on top which realizes the simplest form of a house. The continuous ceiling which visually creates almost a linear perspective reflects the linear shape of the site, the path or the road.
![Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! + TKY JAPAN - Windows, Glass, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5316/6f51/c07a/80f1/9a00/006b/newsletter/09.jpg?1393979198)
Though it is surrounded by volumetric urban buildings, we kept the minimum volume of a single story house, recalling a persisting memory of the site, the little house.
![Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! + TKY JAPAN - Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5316/6f25/c07a/800f/b300/0084/newsletter/08.jpg?1393979151)
The structure is consisted of simple steel-frame which allows the wood columns and rafters to be exposed, thus provides warm and intimate atmosphere to the customers.