OSAKA CREATIVE HUB
DATE
2018
STATUS
CONCEPT & DESIGN
CLIENT
CONCEPT/
DIPLOMA PROJECT
LOCATION
Osaka, JP
The scope of the project was to design a building that could support the need for transformable work spaces for the creative industries in Osaka.
Currently, Osaka is the second largest city after the capital (Tokyo), known as the port city of feudal Japan, further developing during the EDO (1603-1867) as the Japanese cultural city of the country; the proposed project building is set in the Kita region, known as the city's business HUB for companies, start-ups, innovators, entrepreneurs and creatives, while Osaka is known as Japan's economic HUB.
The area also lacks green spaces, so on the first two levels of the HUB a two level public vertical garden was created, an arid Japanese garden where everyone working in the area will have access to, without interfering with the HUB’s workers from the higher levels, who also have their own vertical gardens.
The design of a creative HUB for all creative industries (advertising, architecture, design, fashion, film, music, performing arts, publications, new media, immersive experiments, etc.) proposes a building developed and used vertically.
Designed according to the principles of circular design and using materials devised for at least two life cycles, the HUB offers reconfigurable spaces, spaces for urban gardens - with a buffer zone on the southwest facade - found on every three levels having a double role of filtering and treating the interior air, using controlled waterfalls, as well as spaces for relaxation, contemplation, serving lunch where they can relax.
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