Small House Interior Design CompanyApollo Architects & Associates have completed the tallest building in Japan's Aichi Prefecture, which houses both an art gallery and family-friendly living spaces.
Gaze successfully combines within its wallscomfortable living and contemporary art The three-story building, called Gaze, is located in Obu, south of Nagoya. The Japanese company designed it in such a way that it would end up with a small contemporary art gallery on the lower level and two floors of living space above.
On the ground floor of the building there is a gallery On demandcustomer, who plans to expand the gallery's area in the near future, Satoshi Kurosaki, the head of Apollo, created a series of rooms with a maximally flexible layout. From the outside, the 125-square-meter building looks like a stack of three boxes. At the bottom is a small glass box framed by concrete structures, and at the top are two large metal boxes, one on top of the other.
The structure looks like three boxes stacked on top of each other.on a friend “The building seamlessly connects different structures: a reinforced concrete and glass podium on the ground level, and two wooden box-like floors above,” explains Kurosaki. “The total floor area of the building increases as it increases in height,” he adds. This technique is becoming increasingly popular among architects looking to create more space in smaller spaces. To achieve this, Gaze’s designers used a combination of concrete and wood structures that connect multiple cantilevers. To create a dark metal effect, the blocks on the top two levels are clad in Galvalume, a sheet of steel coated with an aluminum-zinc alloy. This allows the designers to create a contrast between the clear glass of the upper blocks and the raw concrete of the lower level.
The architects managed to achieve a contrast betweenlevels The gallery's concrete walls, ceiling, and floor were left unfinished. The building's interior is simple and straightforward, especially in the free-plan living room on the top floor, where crisp white walls sit next to dark tiled floors.
The interior surfaces of the gallery were not finished. The steel staircase with warm-toned wooden steps is one of the few color accents in the building.
The staircase is one of the accents of Gaze "Interior,The family rooms are intentionally kept very simple and furnished in monochromatic tones, which will allow these rooms to be transformed from living spaces into gallery spaces to display the client's collections," Kurosaki added.
The interior of the living quarters is extremely simple. “This is"There will be a screening room. You can live side by side with art without losing your sense of privacy," the architect adds. The open-plan living room takes up the entire top floor. The connected kitchen and dining table are on one side of the room, while the seating area opens onto a private balcony on the other.
The open plan living area is on the upper level. Three bedrooms are located on the middle floor, along with a bathroom, toilet and washroom.
On the second floor of the building there are bedrooms. In order toIn order to combine the functions of a gallery and a living space in the building, there is a second entrance leading directly to the upper floors. The dormer windows provide excellent lighting in the living area, which creates, according to Kurosaki, a "pleasant atmosphere."
To get directly into the living quarters, you canuse the second entrance Kurosaki founded Apollo Architects & Associates in 2000. The company currently has branches in Japan, China and South Korea. Among the architect's other projects are a house called Noah's Ark and a studio home for a fashion photographer. If you like the idea of combining spaces created for completely different purposes, tell your friends about this article!
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