Mount Fuji Architects Studio

Hotel Siro

Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi

HOTEL SIRO

MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO

AREA
962 m2

LOCATION
Toshima City, Japan

CATEGORY
Hotels

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ryota Atarashi

YEAR
2020

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Graph Studio, Yuko Mihara, Graph Studio

ARCHITECTS
Masahiro Harada+MAO, Takashi Takei

MEP ENGINEERING
TETENS

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Fujiki Komuten Co.Ltd

Text description provided by architect.

I like hotels that remind me I’m really staying in the city. 

Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
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Hotel Siro
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Hotel Siro
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You may think I’m stating the obvious, but how many of you can say you’ve really experienced the city after spending a night in a hotel there?

Usually, you enter a hotel from the street through the front door and reach a rather secluded lobby where you check in.

Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
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You ride in a box as the elevator takes you up, walk down a dimly-lit corridor, open the door to your room and pass through the narrow space in front of the bathroom before finally reaching the space you’ll spend the night in.

Enveloped in many layers, the room is so isolated that you find yourself separated from the city of Tokyo, and I think you must be aware only that you’re staying in a certain hotel brand.

Hotel Siro
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Hotel Siro
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I always feel that this must be really boring for the traveler. So, what we wanted to create here was a hotel where guests would experience the uniqueness of the city.

The hotel’s design brings Tokyo’s layered streets directly into the building. Every flight of stairs, which directly connects each floor with the city, has a different design, just like stairs in hilly cities like Nagasaki and Onomichi.

The stairways lead to a loggia-like open-air hallway where breezes can blow through. Every room is directly accessed from this Tokyo roji alleyway-like hall. The rooms include this engawa-like access from the hallway and a doma entryway, both reminiscent of a ryokan traditional inn, making them novel, contemporary yet Japanese.

Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
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By opening the shoji screens and sliding doors, you can revel in the cityscape of the Ikebukuro district spreading out below, and find your wanderlust fulfilled. I’ve heard that a traveler is called “a wandering bird (wandervogel)” in German.

Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
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I hope you will relax and sleep in this hotel is if it were a perch in a city you’re flying over, nestled in the city’s embrace. Masahiro Harada, Founder and Architect, Architects Studio

Hotel Siro
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Hotel Siro
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Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi
Hotel Siro
© Ryota Atarashi


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