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Award-winning item: Community Center [Sukagawa Community Center tette]
Business Owner: sukagawa city
Category: 14-03 Construction/space design for public facility
Company: Sukagawa City (Japan)
Ishimoto Architectural & Engineering Firm, Inc. (Japan)
Unemori Architects (Japan)
Academic Resource Guide, Inc. (Japan)
stillwater co., ltd. (Japan)
Nippon Design Center, Inc. (Japan)
Award Number: 19G141112
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2019

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Outline: It is a complex facility created as a reconstruction project of the Great East Japan Earthquake. By building a place for activity of multiple functions such as library for lifelong learning, child care support, and museum in the center of the city, the facility was planned to revitalize the city and interaction of its citizens that had been lost.
Producer: Sukagawa Community Center, Takashi Sakuma
Director: Makoto Okamoto, Myeong-hee Lee, Academic Resource Guide, Inc. + Yuko Aoki, stillwater co., ltd. + Yoshiaki Irobe, Irobe Design Institute, Nippon Design Center, Inc.
Designer: Tsunagu Sato, Kazuki Sogo, Ishimoto Architectural & Engineering Firm, Inc. + Hiroyuki Unemori, Unemori Architects, Inc.; 設計に携わったメンバー
More information: https://s-tette.jp/
Already in service/use: 2019/1/11

Evaluation

This megastructure is designed based on the "misalignment of the floors." The staggering effect creates an outside terrace on each floor and visually connects the different indoor facilities such as library, childcare facility and museum, allowing just the right amount of distance from each other to co-exist in the building. Suspended floors produce an astylar space and their thickness addresses the issue of noise and securing space for building facilities, providing various solutions with the power of design. The development of this new public facility well reflects the complex and diverse times today, as seen in the collaboration between a general architectural office and a young architect.