In charge of implementation design (interior and exterior design) and supervision
9h Asakusa is a capsule hotel with a 180 bed sleeping pod. The site is located on the west side of Asakusa Temple, on the extension of Shin Nakami street, located in the area where one of the most prestigious characters in Tokyo with Hanayashiki and Asakusa rock za. There, we thought that we would make a hotel like a three-dimensional town involving miscellaneous atmosphere and coloring where small scale stores around the site gather, and the flow of Shin-Nakamise street.
The Asakusa element having a roof like a small castle hidden there, grasping the assembly of capsules as a base like a rocky mountain, and the plants and the external staircase are brought up, a scenery of a three-dimensional road which hopes for Asakusa Temple is born. The setback-backed base of decoboco produces a surplus that is not divisible due to the nature of the capsule pixels. By changing the arrangement of the capsules on each fl oor, surplus parts are placed at various places in the building and replaced as the under-roof space incorporating the surrounding environment. This roof space can be freely used as a shared function of a capsule hotel such as terrace, lounge and gym like edge side, and it can approach from outside staircase as well.
On the first and second floor tenants, the coffee shop "Fuglen Tokyo" with its head office in Oslo, Norway enters, fusing like Asakusa's characteristics and future designs and gradations of Ninehours. It is primitive to construct an interface where a unique time and space interact between a minimum capsule and a city that is specialized only for sleeping, and is intended as a new architecture.
Site : Tokyo, Japan
Design period : October 2016 â November 2017
Construction period : October 2017 â August 2018
In charge of proposal, design (including workshop web contenftu, rniture design),supervision
This cultural exchange facility was built in front of Ota Station in Gunma Prefecture.
One aim of the project was to create a base that would draw a stream of people back to the front of the station, which had become largely deserted. Another aim was to create something that would make a connection between the town and the buildingâs interior, encouraging people to casually drop by. It was also necessary to create a place that was wholly unique to Ota. Using the image of a wing and propeller, a reference to the Nakajima Aircraft Company, which had once operated in the city, I attempted to evoke a state in which the building would serve as a node for multiple streams.
In concrete terms, I proposed a structure in which a slope would wind around and around five reinforced-concrete boxes by means of a steel rim. This enables people to naturally make their way to every floor as if they were walking through the city. In addition, I tried to create a threedimensional symbiosis of places with a diverse range of characteristics to enable people of many different ages and backgrounds to discover their own place. The book shelves and works of art are visible through the window, making people want to go inside, and in the same way that a museum or a library exudes a welcoming air by providing us with a glimpse of its contents, the building precipitates a stream of people. Designed to entangle a large number of local residents and staff, the building is like a flower that was born in front of the station.
In charge of basic design and examination of details
This 12-story housing complex was built in Taipei.
I wanted to design an apartment building that would be suitable for Taiwanese people, who have devised various intermediate areas in their daily lives to deal with the countryâs hot and humid climate, and would also have a 21st-century sensibility.
So, rather than a standard fl oor plan, I opted for a setback form while trying to work around the building regulations in order to furnish each unit with a large terrace. The terraces are covered by a roof and trees, creating a comfortable and three-dimensional intermediate area on the surface of the building.
A rigid-frame structure with a six-meter grid is covered with a roofframing system with a three-meter grid. The roofs have a uniform pitch and diff erent kinds of expressions can be made by altering the incline. The gradient distribution can be used to bifurcate the fl ow of rainwater or to form a network, and the roofs, gutters, and thin vertical columns create a rhythm on the buildingâs surface. The wind that blows through the city is softly dispersed over the entire surface, making the terraces more comfortable, and minimizing the outbreak of âbuilding wind.â
The work is a prototype for a high-rise building suited to 21st-century Asia in which the fl ow of water and air become entangled.
Site : Taipei, Taiwan
Design period : April 2014 â 2018 (expected)
Construction period : February 2013 â March 2014
We wanted to create rich entanglement between the things just like on the surface of the huge tree.
This is a collective housing in Tokyo. The site is situated in the bottom of the shallow valley, and we tried to treat a building as a pa rt of the surrounding landform.
Streets around this site are not like normal homogeneous grid, but like awkward grid following diff erent direction of the landform.
This is why we decided to install walls along the awkward grid to make conversation between the building and surrounding landform or cityscape.
Openings are excavated on the walls and several cells are connected to create each apartment.
Exterior shape is scraped off like ero sion, creating balconies and plant pods.
Cave-like apartment, but at the same time, it has rich relationship between exterior or surrounding environment.
Most of our body is made of water. Just as water is flowing on the ground surface, water is fl owing in our body. Water is fl owing in plants. Rather, the shape of the plant itself is the fl ow of water. It is quite natural
that the word "green" has the same etymology as "Mizu".
Water is fl owing in modern buildings, too. However, the nature of water is almost completely controlled in the system of artifi cial plumbing. In such circumstances we also forget that we are dedicated to the nature of water.
Then, we tried to create a sight which is not garden and architecture, water, structure and plant entangled in the middle of modern office space. Following the acrylic structure in the center, water fl ows down as it spreads like a single fl ower. This water fl ow intertwines with various plants. People enter this strange intermixture, and in various visible fl ows that are visible or invisible
To listen carefully.
This is an attempt to unleash the hard shell of the building in the fl ow of water while being led by the gardener's thought and to unleash our body into the changing manner of water.
Design of the interior of the Axis building in Roppongi. There were possibilities to exhibit various types of photographs, from vintage photography to contemporary art. By finishing the walls in an off-white color and using light bulb-colored lighting fixtures, we designed a warm space that accentuated the quality of the black-and-white photographs.
In charge of examination, creation and design of geometry
2012 Milan Salone Best award
We designed exhibition of Pansonic Corporation for Milan Salone 2012 and won Elita DesignAward, the best award for annual Milan Salone. We had to present impressively "EnergyManagement" as a rare company with ability to produce all 3, solar panel (create, )accumulator (store,) LED lighting device (save,) in their own plants. "Energy Management" is abroad concept related to energy circulation in ecosystem, so we illustrated an image of future where nature and artifi ciality are united as leaf, fl ower and fruit of one tree. The solar pavilion like one tree are especially set in the center to symbolize the main concept. Structure of polycarbonate panel never prevent sunshine during day and refl ect LED lighting during night. This is a new harmony of historical resources and modern stuffs in the courtyard of Milan University existingfrom 15C. The pavilion symbolize the cutting edge fusion of nature and artifi ciality as comfortable outdoor space.
Site : Milan, Italy
Design period : October 2010 â February 2011
Construction period : February â April 2011
Structural engineer : Mitsuhiro Kanada, Kengo Takamatsu (ARUP)
General contractors : NOMURA Co., Ltd., Xilografi a
Ayami Takada was born in Japan in 1985. Before establishing ayami takada architects in 2019, she received her Degree in Architecture, Yokohama National University and her Masterâs Degree in Architecture from the University of Tokyo. To learn architectural design know-how, she worked at Plasma Studio in London and at Nikken Sekkei and Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office in Tokyo. She experienced classical, modern, creative ballet and street dance from the age of three. She has experience of performing at Carnegie Hall in New York and has exhibited at Milan Salone to spread Japanese culture all around the world in a new way. During studying under Ryue Nishizawa, Kou Kitayama and Manabu Chiba, she learned the living environment of all time and culture, from the design of furniture for a high fashion brand to the research of urban planning in UAE. She has an established reputation for designing public facilities, urban development, and living spaces, including Museum and Library, Ota, a redevelopment project undertaken by Mitsui Fudosan, and a resort development project in Huizhou, China. She is also involved in product development utilizing her architectural skills, such as developing products with domestic manufacturers as an opportunity to introduce people to architecture. She is also involved in the design of creative renovation of theaters.
1985 Born in Aichi and raised in Shizuoka, JAPAN
2004 Graduation from Shizuoka High School
2008 Degree in Architecture, Yokohama National University
2010 Master Course of University of Tokyo, Architecture, Manabu Chibaâs Labratory Scholar of Yoshioka-Bunko foundation
2011 Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office
2019 ayami takada architects
AWARD
2024ãCity Planning Ideas Competition in East Shizuoka, Honorable Mention
2024ãRegional DX Producer â â (SIH Intl Business Contest MVP)
2022ãShizuoka City Culture Hall large-scale renovation/seismic reinforcement work proposals, 1st Prize **
2022ãArchitectural Institute of Japan Award for Works*
2021ãAncient Tree Civilization and Residence Future International Architectural Design Competition TOP30 (RIBA)
2018ãBCS Award*
2012ãElita Design Award*
2012ãDSA Design Award *
2011ãInternational Competition of Digital and Traditional Architectural Illustration, Student Award of Merit
