Daikin Ales Aoya Expansion
Daikin Ales Aoya Expansion
Takenaka Corporation
ARCHITECTS
Etsuo Kurata, Masaomi Yonezu, Toshiyuki Katase, Yuuta Mizuno, Kouta Inokuchi, Masaaki Matsuoka, Tadanori Kakimoto, Kenta Horita, Ken Tamura
ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
Takashi Kuge
CLIENTS, PROJECT PRODUCTION
Daikin Ales Project Team
MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Graphisoft, Lithos Design, Ykk Ap, Arterior / Vorwerk, Asahi Souken, Gantan Beauty Industry, Hirukawa Metal, Kitamura Corporation, Mcneel, Nyk Systems, Okazaki Wood Working, Real 4, Sekistone, Showa Yotal, Solibri, Solidworks, Syntegrate, Takashimaya Space Create, Trimble, +1
STRUCTURAL DESIGNER
Hisashi Okude, Hideto Tanaka, Takefumi Suzuki
LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
Hideki Yamano
INTERIOR DESIGNER
Haruo Naka, Chikako Harada, Kenta Kamei
LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION
Akitoshi Miyase
OUTDOOR SCULPTURE
Carsten Nicolai
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Fumiko Suetsugu
CONSTRUCTION
Takashi Kuge
M&E DESIGNER
Toshimichi Kanesaka, Jun Yoshida, Kentarou Oyama
INDOOR SCULPTURE
Yoichi Takada
PHOTOGRAPHS
Kunio Yoshida, Masatomo Sasaki, Takuji Yamamoto, Taizo Furukawa, Hisashi Murase
ENGINEERING
Takashi Kuge
AREA
30402 M²
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
Tottori, Japan
CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Office Buildings
Text description provided by architect.
This is the planned expansion of the global training center (2008) for the Daikin industries, multinational air conditioning manufacturing company, and which has updated the overall character of the facility.
It hosts skill trainers’ workshops or leadership development program as well as family recreational use and VIP reception use.
The existing facility consists of classroom training block, lobby block, and accommodation block, and the expansion contains skill training block, foyer, and expansion of accommodation block.
The layout of the building is allotted in the existing dune terrain and curved in the way as to take in the surrounding dynamic environment and to activate the communications or give rise to the various activities.
The expansion is formed utilizing computational design, with the parameter of the scenery of the sea and green, the sun-light, the regional strong wind from the sea.
The foyer offers the space for various event such as international conference, music concert, or recreational use in addition to the connection lobby between the accommodation block and skill training block or communication space during the training program.
Despite the environment being prone to the salt damage, the space is mainly ventilated with the fresh air rather than air-conditioned through four seasons.
We applied sensor-controlled supply and exhaust opening, geothermal heat exchange pit, and thermal storage water tank in order to achieve significant energy-saving.
On the other hand, we installed spot air conditioning or scene control of the space that can be chose according to differences in heat sensation by racial or individual preferences, achieving comfort in the age of globalization and diversity.
This site was originally a sand dune topography typical to this area, but was planted as a windbreak forest in order to increase the arable land after the world wars, and abandoned and desolated for long years.
Since the completion of the existing building in 2008, the restoration program of the vegetation unique to the dune topography has been applied, which now forms an academically valuable environment, and the landscape planting is still under planned till 2022.
Thus we continue to update the search for a "new air" which foster the environment, technology and human resources that the next generation should be entrusted with.
