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PREMIST TOKUYAMA The Residence

Residential / 2024

Type Residential
Service Architecture / Interior
Client DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CORPORATION CO., LTD.
Project Team Design Architect/ Jun Mitsui & Associates Inc. Architects
Design and Supervision/ Newtopia Planning Co., Ltd.
Construction Fujita Corporation+Sawada Construction+Yorin Corporation Specified construction work JV
Total floor area 7,769.58㎡
Floor, Structure 18F, RC/S
Location 1-32 Ginza, Shunan-shi, Yamaguchi
Photograph Jikuu Art Co., Ltd.

Aim for the emblem in front of Tokuyama Station with a distinct design

This property is a residential building in the Tokuyama Station District Class 1 Urban Redevelopment Project and is directly connected via a deck to JR Tokuyama Station, which is served by Shinkansen services. As it is the tallest building around the station, we used the design concept of “Tokuyama Emblem” to give it a distinct design that would fix it in people’s memory as a landmark of the area in front of the station and a symbol of the city.

The exterior has a full-face design that is broken up vertically to emphasize the building’s 60-meter height, and the main façade directly facing the railway lines has been given a symbolic style through a design with vertical symmetry. We also used a color scheme with contrast that is recognizable from the Shinkansen and emphasized the height direction with white frames on the corner sections in particular. On the southwest corner, we were conscious of the upward view from the open corridor from the station and the deck and created an expression by breaking it up in smaller pieces, while also painting some of the beam-shapes in different colors to place the building on a human scale. The exterior of the entrance has soffits finished to approximate Tokuyama sugi (Japanese cedar) to produce an effect connecting it to the energy from Tokuyama Station. The walls have an artistic design unique to Tokuyama that uses precious locally produced stone (Tokuyama stone) and they switch the polish finishing by surfaces to allow visitors to enjoy different textures.

Because Tokuyama is a key location for traffic by both land and sea, we adopted the interior design concept of “The Cabin Lounge,” where people gather to enjoy journeys by train or by boat. We formed it as a soft space without corners based on a wood finish as the cabin for rest and designed it using Tokuyama’s unique color scheme of grey (Tokuyama stone) + blue (Seto Inland Sea) + wood (Tokuyama sugi). In the windbreak room, louvers arranged on the curved wall entice visitors toward the entrance. The second-floor entrance hall is gently divided into the space by the window with an image of the deck space on a ship and the inside space with an image of the cabin lounge on a luxury liner. The glass art with a motif of the sea currents and the birds reflected upon them that is installed in the center of the hall welcomes residents and has the effect of guiding them to the elevator hall along a corridor of wooden louvers with lines of light resembling wavelengths.

We hope that this renewed place will be loved into the future as the new “emblem” of the station area.

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