Urban planning based on zoning is useful for developing cities, but at the boundaries between zoning areas, which have vastly different properties, building architecture that serve as a transition, rather than building architecture that widen the differences, can make a city more livable. We believe.
YSK office is an employment office that helps local residents to find jobs in industrial areas. Rather than aiming to become an office, we aimed to become a place to lean on for people who live and work in this area.
This building has a 1.7-meter balcony around a long rectangular office in the east-west direction, and horizontal wooden louvers, inspired by the "Noren," a traditional Japanese residential solar control device, are attached to the ends to create an energy-saving, comfortable office environment and a space under the eaves for pedestrians on the front street.