Villa Bianca

Near the Kenzo Tange Olympic buildings, the Meiji Shinto shrine and many foreign embassies, an apartment building with luxury flats for rent has been built in Tokyo-Harajuku. They are all 3- and 4-room flats; each has a small or large balcony with a touch of a small garden. The aim is to create the illusion of a home of one's own. With its honeycomb-shaped components, the building resembles a large beehive in which the loggias and balconies seem to be pierced like cavities. This image is achieved by staggering the floors. A cube of room protruding from the façade corresponds to the hole in a lodge on the upper floor, followed by another cube. All the windows go down to the floor as sliding doors. Cerca de los edificios olímpicos de Kenzo Tange, el santuario sintoísta Meiji y muchas embajadas extranjeras, se ha construido en Tokio-Harajuku un edificio de apartamentos con pisos de lujo para alquilar. Todos son pisos de 3 y 4 habitaciones; cada uno tiene un balcón pequeño o grande con un toque de un pequeño jardín. El objetivo es crear la ilusión de un hogar propio. Con sus componentes en forma de panal, el edificio se asemeja a una gran colmena en la que las logias y los balcones parecen estar horadados como cavidades. Esta imagen se consigue escalonando los pisos. Un cubo de habitación que sobresale de la fachada corresponde al agujero de una logia en el piso de arriba, seguido de otro cubo. Todas las ventanas bajan al piso como puertas corredizas. As Tokyo is prone to earthquakes, this type of construction seems to be really statically conditioned. The main skeleton is a pair of cross-shaped walls with a rigid lift and staircase core and external pendulum supports. The ceilings rest on a grid of beams at a distance of 3.50 metres.