Sugimoto
- Date: October 2021.
- Typology: Competition.
- Dimension: 4.000 m².
- Location: Tokyo, Japan.
What is the future of integrated housing for work and residence? A collective housing united by work and residence that functions like a city. The building will be divided into a residential layer and a workplace layer for each floor, and two layers will be set as one set to have a stacked sectional structure. The house is a two-story building, and the residential and workplace groups are connected by stairs in the room. Up and down the stairs separates my personal life from work. Protect privacy without providing direct access to the house from outside. Even though the size of the house is the same, the individuality of the people who live in it differs. We propose circular, triangular and rectangular housings so that you can choose the shape of the housing according to your personal lifestyle. The mainstream way to exercise in the city is to go to the gym, but create a space where you can exercise by devising a shared terrace in the housing complex or going up and down stairs.
Company employees work and spend every day in a very limited space, and when each employee works from home without a company office, there is room in the urban space. For face-to-face meetings, you can use the common space of the workplaces in the housing complex. Living in a city centre where people tend to be indifferent to others, working in an apartment complex reduces the range of their lives, and gives them the opportunity to pay attention to people and the environment around them. For example, workplaces have workplaces for each resident, and the bridges and terraces that connect them are places for interaction with the resident, such as during breaks between work.
People from different industries, who were widely spread in the city, are close to the workplaces of collective housing, so they can share necessary information and tools with each other. By living in the same place, living, working and working, each has its own benefit and the collective housing functions like a city. If there is a community in the city centre that is a collective housing united by work and residence that functions like a city, that community will be connected to another community and the scope of activities within society will be expanded.
