Tokyo Pop Lab Competition

-Project:
Architecture and Interior Design Competition.
-Category:
Cultural.
-Country / Region:
Japan / Tokyo.
-Year:
2016.

Description:
Arhitecturescu is very proud to present you a special project, made by our team, for an international competition. A Popular Culture Hub in Tokyo, with a central library connecting all the interior spaces, floating on concrete trees and surrounded by vegetation and overall openness.
The context - Tokyo city - a true metropolis that has everything from state-of-the-art buildings to old and historic places, from the commotion of busy areas to the silence of traditional gardens. The subject - Pop Culture - a mixture between old and new, classic and innovative, it challenges in some aspects the traditional culture and art. We created a building that fits in this context - from exterior geometry to floor plans and materials it creates a harmonic fusion between the opposites. Regular traditional patterns blends with the organic shapes of the structure and vegetation, the use of cold materials (concrete) and warm ones (lamellar wood), the opaque surfaces pierced by glazed walls, concrete pillars that resembles trees, with roots and branches, and actual trees next to them.