Sunwell Muse Kitasando / Takato Tamagami

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Architects: Takato Tamagami Architectural Design
Location: Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Masaya Yoshimura

Project Area: 221.0 sqm
Total Floor Area: 992

This is a building of a textile planning and trading company which handles the entire process from the production to retail.

© Masaya Yoshimura

The site is well located on the corner plot near the fashionable city “Harajuku”. The client had been focusing on female apparel business, so the concept of our building design which is a metaphor of female beauty was suitable for them to put across their corporate identity.

© Masaya Yoshimura

The components that characterizes this architecture are the two curved surface walls which dominate the entire space.

© Masaya Yoshimura

These two walls form a shortcut path which connects the roads in front of each side of the corner plot. This path which looks like a narrow alley or the bottom of a ravine leads visitors inside the building, to the event hall in the basement and the showrooms on the first and second floors.

© Masaya Yoshimura

The curves used in the elevation surfaces on the north side and the east side represent those of a female body.

© Masaya Yoshimura

The graceful curved surface walls were created by connecting the curves with a straight line.

Plan, Elevation & Section 01

These curved walls are used as a motif of this architecture, and you can see them not only in the façade but also in the internal spaces on each floor. 

Sunwell Muse Kitasando / Takato Tamagami originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 07 Jul 2012.

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Comments

[Ana729]

05:36 PM on 07/15/2012

The minute I saw the words architecture inspired by the female body I instantly thought of Marie's sculpture on Everybody Loves Raymond.

[stnkyv]

02:01 PM on 07/16/2012

i am still waiting for the fat females to start protesting the slim design

[o4tuna]

04:42 PM on 07/15/2012

If you are an American architect, study this building and learn why everything you know about architecture is wrong.

[R clinton]

01:54 PM on 07/15/2012

Aren't most actions inspired by the female body. Who would fight if the winner didn't get the girl. Most of men's time is spent on getting ahead, or getting fit, being smart, or funny, or handsome, or clean. It's all in the name of getting the girl. Our DNA must live on. This can't apply to all guys being that some don't like women, but you know what I mean.