SYNEGIC Office

SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai

SYNEGIC OFFICE

UENOA

ARCHITECTS
UENOA

LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
SfG landscape architects, Akihiko Ono

MANUFACTURERS
Vectorworks, Toto, AutoCAD, Dymwakai, ModuleX, PS, Rhinoceros, Seihoku, sangetu

CONSTRUCTION
HAKKOH Construction Company Limited

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
Holzstr, KMC, Ken Kamachi, Masahiro Inayama

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
UENOA

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hiroyuki Hirai

AREA
633 m²

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Japan

CATEGORY
Offices

Text description provided by architect.

This architecture is a new office building of “SYNEGIC Co., Ltd” , a structural screws manufacturer for wooden buildings.

SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai

It is located in Miyagi Prefecture ,Japan. The client asked us for advanced architecture that expands the possibilities of wooden structure.

Therefore, we proposed a plan where various places are mixed under the roof of 18m wooden large span trusses so that the employees working in the office can be seen from each other.

SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai

The roof frame touches the ground at four points on end sides, and there is no pillar inside, creating a large space.

By following the topographical and moving floor level in a dynamic roof frame, a place covered near the frame as you touch it, or a place where you can feel the continuous of the frame appears.

SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai

The three-dimensional roof shape is formed by connecting flat trusses made of laminated timber with a width of 105 (this module is most general dimension on Japanese houses) with triangular CLT panels.

By adopting a CLT panel for fastening flat trusses, complicated processing of joints and joining by hardware are avoided,and it enables a rational method of factory pre-cutting and on-site screw joining.

SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai

In addition, we can use the heavy CLT panels ,generally used for walls and floors,lightly on the roof .That can be presented new ways of using CLT. The CLT is also used as a partition wall that bears a vertical load on the first floor.

Through these ambitious processes commensurate with the high cost of CLT, it was possible to realize a large CLT wall in the atrium that has no modules and emphasizes the wooden texture more.

SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai

After thoroughly controlling the texture of the CLT surface just like a marble, we are trying to join screws with consideration of design and workability rather than general CLT hardware.

For the future of CLT that will progress, we think that these method on the wall and the roof have practiced one extreme point.



SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai
SYNEGIC Office
© Hiroyuki Hirai


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Section A
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Section B


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Ground floor plan
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First floor plan
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Site plan
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Roof diagram


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Architecture graph
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Detail