Chofu city, Tokyo, Japan
2015-
Educational facility for Music

Toho Gakuen School of Music is known as one of the finest colleges in the world that has produced a number of excellent artists who now lead the field of classical music. The project is to design a new school building in wood for the department of music. The building is 4-storied, fire-proofed construction that uses membrane-typed resistance, which is going to be a rare big-scale wooden building in Japan. Pine and cypress (hinoki) are used for the members because of their strength, and Noto-grown cypress (hiba) is employed for the exterior for its excellent weather resistance. In the interior, larch plywood is used intensively to express “culture of wood” with its rich texture. The large eave in the front and the outer wall are designed as a single surface of origami, for which sliding boards are applied. We then prepared a communal space that connects the building and the rest of the campus. Wide corridors are joining practice rooms, which also can be used for the students to practice individually. We provided many places in the building for people to communicate and interact, which is unusual for a conventional schoolhouse.

東京都調布市
2015～
音楽教育施設　

著名な音楽家を多く輩出し、世界の音楽界をリードする桐朋学園音楽部門の木の新校舎。メンブレン型耐火構造の採用によって、四階建ての耐火木造という、国内では稀有な大型木造建築が実現した。木軸には強度のある松とヒノキを、外装には耐候性に優れた能登ヒバ材を使用し、内装には木の質感が豊かなラーチ合板を多用し、「木の文化」を再現した。前面の大庇と外壁は羽目板を用いた、ひとつの折り紙状の面としてデザインし、大庇の下に、キャンパスと校舎をつなぐ、コミュニケーションスペースを作った。
練習室をつなぐ幅の広いコリドーは、個人練習用のスペースとしても使われ、従来の校舎建築にはない、多目的な交流空間が生まれた。