Osamu Sakurai_Portfolio_2022-2024

PORTFOLIO OSAMU SAKURAI 2022-2024

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EXPERIENCE 2013-2022

Maeda Corporation

Architectural Designer

Completed and worked on a number of arhictectural projects in Japan.

2022 Coeru Shibuya, Steel-Timber Hybrid, Office building, Shibuya, Tokyo, JP (Built) (Published on Archdaily) https://www.archdaily.com/1003157/coeru-shibuya-offices-and-commercial-building-maeda-corporation 2018 Proud Tower Kiba Park, Reinforced Concrete, Residence, Kiba, Tokyo, JP (Built) 2018 SOSiLA Yokohama Kohoku 2F East refurbishment for YAMATO Transport CO., Ltd. (Completed) 2017 SOSiLA Yokohama Kohoku, Steel, Multi-tenant logistics Center, JP (Built) 2016 KPAC Plant Expansion, Steel, Manufacturing plant, Goka, Ibaraki, JP (Built) 2015 LEFOND PROGRÈS Takinogawa, Reinforced concrete, Apartment, Tokyo, JP (Built)

2019 Winter

Boyarsky Murphy Architects

Architectural Intern in London Initial Design Development and Model Study for San Cristoforo Bridge Competition

EDUCATION 2022-May 2024 (expected)

OSAMU SAKURAI Master of Architecture Candidate University of Southern California Class of 2024

2018 Fall 2015 Summer

University of Southern California | Los Angeles School of Architecture Master of Architecture

Architectural Association School of Architecture | London Autumn Semester Program, Instructor: Niara Vegara Non Degree

Hooke Park Landscape Workshop | Beaminster AA Visiting School Program, Instructor: Shin Egashira

2011-2013

Hiroshima University | Hiroshima

2008-2011

Kumamoto University | Kumamoto

Graduate School of Engineering, Architecture Course, Mitsugu Okagawa Laboratory Master of Engineering Department of Architecture and Building Engineering, Ryuichi Ito Laboratory Bachelor of Engineering

ACHIEVEMENTS 2023 2022 2009

Merit Scholarship

University of Southern California

Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Study

Semi-grand prix

Fulbright Association

Tachikawa Blind Color Coordinate Contest Student Section for “Total Solar Eclipse”

SKILLS

1575 1/2 W 37th Pl Fl 1, Los Angeles, CA 90018, US mobile: 213.245.4894 email: osakurai@usc.edu

Design Others

Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, AutoCAD Illustrator, Photoshop, 1st-Class Kenchikushi (Architectural License in Japan), Japanese

REFERENCE

Fernanda Oppermann (fe@thisismutuo.com) and Jose Herrasti (herrasti@usc.edu), Mutuo Adjunct Associate Professors at USC

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Table of Contents Spiral Village

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Urban Mountain

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Gallery of Your Things

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+Cross House

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Arc Art

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Dancing Louver

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Timber Cave

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Hand Sketches

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Coeru Shibuya

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SPIRAL VILLAGE Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Fall 2023 / 3 months Site : Art District, LA Instructor : Fernanda Oppermann, Jose Herrasti

Stayable Spaces (Grass field, Planting Strip, Bench etc.)

Residential Units

North Entrance Park from Art street

Commetial Programs (Gallery, Cafe, Restaurant etc.)

Reference: https://www.tripsavvy.com/los-angeles-arts-dis-

Since 60s, the art culture of the district has develoed with the unique combination with industrial buildings.

Art District, as the name itself implies, has been a center for the art culture of LA for decades. However, artists in the district started leaving the area because of its high housing prices, a result of excessive gentrification in the city, eventually leading to the loss of its identity.

South Entrance Park from Commercial street

Existing warehouse at the site An example of financial sustainability “only”

Program Diagram

This project aims to contribute to both the cultural and financial sustainability of the district by providing affordable housing for artists, combined with diverse commercial programs.

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Mixture of two characteristics of the area The unique shape of the site has the potential to mix the cultural and commercial atmosphere around this area, achieved through small entrance parks that face two different types of streets.

Spiralling Up Structure

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In between housing and the other programs, various types of small stayable spaces are intened to be provided to foster a sense of belonging to the district.

URBAN MOUNTAIN Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Fall 2022 / 3 months Site : Pico Boulevard, LA Instructor : Mario Cipresso

Collective housings have always faced the challenges of how to balance privacy and publicness while achieving high density of residential units.

This project aims to acquire a suitable gradient of spaces ranging from intimate privacy to publicness by controlling the size of program volumes and its openness.

Boxes of programs were stacked to form a moutain between the city and nature.

Residential units have intimate privacy with partition walls at the balconies, and have open views to the golf course

Pathways surrounding connect the routes for other residential buildings.

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Stepped balconies are designed to maximize the use of private outdoor space and provide views to nature.

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The sizes of spaces become bigger as the program changes from private to public use.

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The units facing to balconies offer the most private spaces. Height-changing walls controll visibility among residents.

The gradient of space sizes eventually reaches to this semi-outside space overlooking the city scape to the north.

MULTIPURPOSE ROOM MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

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Units on the ground floor serve as ateliers for various professionals who work, live here and interact with other residents.

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As one transitions from residential units through shared spaces and communal areas to semi-outside spaces, t he sizes of the spaces gradually expand, offering a more spacious and open environment

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The lighting intends to capture the different qualities of its spillage, varying based on the orientation towards the city and the orientation towards nature.

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GALLERY OF YOUR THINGS Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Fall 2022 / 1 week Site : N/A Instructor : Mario Cipresso

The belongings we choose often reflect aspects of our personality. In this 9-foot cube minimal dwelling, residents can customize their privacy and level of exposure by manipulating the presentation of their possessions. A hinged door allows control over the room's visibility to the public, offering a dynamic and adaptable living space.

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+ CROSS HOUSE Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Fall 2022 / 2 weeks Site : Los Angeles Instructor : Mario Cipresso

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) has emerged as a viable solution to address the challenges in providing affordable housing in Los Angeles.

This project aims to offer various types of spaces within area and height restrictions, incorporating a cross-shaped structure to support random skip floors.

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The orientation of vertical louvers regulates the intake of sunlight and the extent of solar heat gain.

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The cross-shaped bearing wall supports skip floors situated at various levels.

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Stairs at the central void act as a mediator between skipped floors.

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ARC ART Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Spring 2023 / 1 month Site : University of Southern California, LA Instructor : Andrew Kovacs

This project aims to be an intermediate product between architecture and art.

The installation on the USC campus presents an iconic appearance, encouraging vibrant student life, and provides some architectural functionality, such as benches or canopies to act as an “Arc Art.”

DANCING LOUVER

Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Fall 2023 / 3 months Site : N/A Instructor : Sarah Hammond

Louver design provides architects with a certain degree of freedom to express the regional characteristics of local materials through impressively repetitive appearances. However, its design requires architects to manage various parameters such as the dimensions of standardized materials, colors, alignments, and so forth. It can be daunting to explore numerous options across several variations.

This coding project aims to enhance the immediacy and explorability of louver design by allowing a number of inputs to generate patterns of louvers instantly.

As one puts a JPEG picture as an input, which represents a sense of a region or surrounding environment, the code picks up three representative colors to apply those randomly to pieces of louvers.

Demensions of louvers are from an XML(Excell File) which shows locally available sizes of standardized materials to achieve balanced procurement.

TIMBER CAVE

Chinatown, LA has seen an unique mixture of culture with different nationalities, and today the townscape shows a certain kind of chaotic appearance.

Type : Academic / Individual Work Year : Fall 2022 / 3 months Site : Chinatown, LA Instructor : Roland Wahlroos-Ritter

This high-rise timber, social justice center project tries to accomodate its diverse community by providing various types of combinations of formal and informal spaces within strict constraints of mass timber building code.

Chinatown, a chaotic appearance of the mixed culture

The continuous circulation serves as informal spaces adjacent to specific programs on each floor, providing a redundancy and longevity to the project, while allowing flexibility in how the spaces are utilized in the long run.

HALLWAY

The route of continuous “infomal space” is determined by the sizes and locations of programed spaces.

The elevators and hallways enable ADA compliant access to any room.

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At the office floor, the informal space highlighted in black serves as a semi-outdoor area where workers can take breaks, have relaxed conversations, or continue working outside.

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The relationship between the black (formal) and white (informal) spaces evolves vertically, changing its appearance through programming.

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Louvers in the double skin system change their orientation based on the direction each one faces to control direct sunlight and heat gain.

Informal spaces sometimes appear on the facade, sometimes hide behind the louvers.

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HAND SKETCHES

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COERU SHIBUYA Type : Professional / Assinged as Leading Designer Year : Completed in 2022 / 1 Year Site : Shibuya, Tokyo

This high-rise urban office project in Shibuya, Tokyo utilizes a newly patented steel-timber hybrid structure “Timber Lattice” on its facade facing the most vibrant streets in the area, to introduce an enviromentally friendly atmosphere to the city center.

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