Graft Architects: AO Project, Japan

via Designboom - Weblog on 4/7/09

ao project by graft architects
image courtesy graft architects


graft architects was asked to develop and design an apartment complex for
a japanese client.

confined by city regulations for height and setbacks, as well as a maximum
area allotted for business parameters, the contour and silhouette of the volume 
was an almost pre existing condition. graft utilized the oddity of this non designed 
shape and gives it a formal identity.

the setbacks on the upper levels are combined into a mound that tops the 
apartment box underneath, a new 'living hill'. balconies accentuate the shape 
of the building subtracted as cartesian volumes. 


ao project 
image courtesy graft architects



ao project 
image courtesy graft architects


general info
ao project
time: 2006 - 2012
size: 15 000m2

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