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Sunwell Muse by Takato Tamagami and Be-Fun Design
A curving chasm slices off the corner of this showroom building in western Tokyo to create a passageway to its entrance.
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Completed by Japanese architects Tsutomu Hasegawa of Be-Fun Design and Takato Tamagami in 2008, the five-storey-high concrete block contains galleries and a workplace for textile company Sunwell.
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Glass bridges cross the narrow, timber-lined alleyway on the three upper levels, leading to small triangular meeting rooms.
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On the ground floor, a staircase leads down to a basement with high ceilings, where the company host events.
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This is the second product showroom we've featured on Dezeen this month - see our recent story about a timber showroom concealed behind gauzy black curtains.
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Photography is by Masaya Yoshimura.
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Here's some more text from Takato Tamagami:
Sunwell Muse Kita-sando
This is a building of a textile planning and trading company which handles the entire process from the production to retail.
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The site is well located on the corner plot near the fashionable city "Harajuku".
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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.
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The components that characterises this architecture are the two curved surface walls which dominate the entire space.
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These two walls form a shortcut path which connects the roads in front of each side of the corner plot.
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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.
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The curves used in the elevation surfaces on the north side and the east side represent those of a female body.
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The graceful curved surface walls were created by connecting the curves with a straight line.
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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.
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Use: show room, event hall, office
Client: Sunwell Group
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Architect: Takatotamagami Architectural Design/Takato Tamagami + Be-Fun Design/Tsutomu Hasegawa
Location: Sendagaya, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Date of completion: 29th, February, 2008
Structure: reinforced concrete structure + steel structure
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Exterior wall materials: custom-made stucco/ timber pine natural resin varnish finish
Roof materials: seat waterproofing
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Interior wall materials: concrete finish/ timber pine natural resin varnish finish / plasterboard EP
Interior floor materials: calcium silicate board/ cement plastering
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Building area: 221m2
Total floor area: 992m2
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