SCC - Sendagaya Community Center
SCC - Sendagaya Community Center
Kengo Kuma & Associates
ARCHITECTS
Kengo Kuma & Associates
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Ejiri Structural Engineers
DESIGN TEAM
Masaru Shuku, Yusuke Kanemoto, Tomochika Miki*, Miki Sato, Yoo Shiho, Kyoko Mase, Kimio Suzuki
FACILITY ENGINEERS
P.t.morimura & Associates
PHOTOGRAPHS
Kawasumi-kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office
AREA
2607 M²
YEAR
2024
LOCATION
Japan
CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Community Center, Commercial Architecture
In the densely built-up area of Jingumae, where workers and residences are intermingled, we designed a complex facility open to the public with a series of marble floors.
The circular slabs create a generous gap between the building and the adjacent properties, allowing maximum light and wind to enter from the outside.
The atrium, which runs from the first floor to the rooftop, serves as a pathway for the light and wind to enter the building, additionally serving as a communal connection between the mixed functions on separate floors.
The interior and flooring are covered with various circular panels used as windows, furniture, curtains, and signage, all of which vary in material and scale, maximizing the power of the circle to create a softer space.
This is a proposal for a "malleable" public building that replaces the rigid and closed public building.
