「自分たちの街を自分たちで変える」この思いから「西葛西APARTMENTS-2」のプロジェクトは始まりました。住人が住むだけの場ではなく、そこで働く人がいて、商う人がいる、外部の人々が集まれる複合的な機能を持った建物。建物１階のベーカリー&カフェ「gonno bakery market」が面するのは、2000年に建てられた「西葛西APARTMENTS」との境に設けたオープンペース「7丁目PLACE」。2階はコワーキングスペース「FAR EAST of TOKYO」と駒田建築設計事務所、3,4階に賃貸住戸という構成です。単なる集合住宅ではなく、生活圏としてのコミュニティーを再生するために、様々な人が交流し情報を発信す場の実現を目指しました。

“We change our town on our own” This was the motivation that brought life to the “Nishikasai APARTMENTS-2” project. The project aimed at building a structure with functions and design which would welcome not only the residents but also workers, business owners and visitors. Right across bakery & café “gonno bakery market” located on the first floor of the building is an open space “7-CHOME PLACE” built in between the building and “Nishikasai APARTMENTS” in 2000. There are a co-working space “FAR EAST of TOKYO” and Komada Architects Office on the second floor and the third and fourth floor are residential floors. The structural wall with the grid of gate-like openings that are each 3 m × 3.2 m wide, the gallery which can be found on the exterior of the second floor, the pathway to upper levels that make a circle, the “7-CHOME ROOF” on the rooftop laying at the end of the pathway, and the “7-CHOME PLACE” on ground floor together construct an architectural infrastructure. The building achieves a structure with combined purposes and applications. It not only stays flexible to the changes in its application that could be brought about by the aging of the building at short notice, but also plays a role of constantly characterizing the space. In the context of the history of Japanese collective housing, this project aims to re-socialize collective housing, and in retrospect, it was also about decomposing the structural system of collective housing. We aspire to a place where a diverse group of people interact with each other and which will be the hub of new values and culture to revive the community as a sphere of everyday life.

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