Connecting PointCONCEPT

What do you image about Harajyuku ？

Do you think that Harajyuku is a shopping Town ？

Do you think that a town where young poeple come to visit ？

Especially,young people might think that Harajyuku is a shopping Town or Town where young poeple comes to

visit.

Under this consideration、I realized that Hrajyuku has uniqueness while I was walking around it.

Although Harajyuku is considered as a town where young poeple come to visit and shop、you can see

many residences that accomodate a family or elderly poeple behind apparel shops and salons if

you walk into alleys and lanes from main road.

I am wondering if there are better ways for Harajyuku to be a comfortable place for the residents.

I think that a good city has belance between visitors and residents.

This time, I focused on ............

In order to take a balance of ratios between visitors and residents、I planed a Mixed use community center to provide

a place for residents to do activities and interact as well as give visitors other opportunities to

be able to share activities with residents.I also planed this Mixed use cmmunity center as a connecting point

for visitors and residents to be able to interact each other.

Mixed Use Community Center

Lessons: cooking, flower, arrangement,

calligraphy, dance, and painting

Exercises: basketball, badminton,and fitness

Studies: reading, writing, and computer skills

　　Giving Options

Offering other reasons to come to

Harajyuku

Diversifying life in Harajyuku

Learning opportunities

Providing a Place

ResidentsVisitors

Coexistenxce

Becomes a town where the ratio between visitors and

residents is well-balanced.

Visitors

≒

Customer

≒

People around 20 years old

Residents

≒

Family

≒

Children, Parents or Elderly poeple

I focused on the fact that Harajyuku can not take a balance. That is, young poeple and visitors occupied

Harajyuku and it became too commercialezed area.

: = ?　：　?

Ratio

A place for a residents’ association

A place for residents to interact

A place for a shopkeepers’ association

Learnign opportunities

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・Narrow street caused by high rise buildings and heavy traffic

・Residence converted to commercial facility

・Traditional grocery store・Vacant house

SITE

Harajyuku Station

Aoyama

SITE HISTORY

Edo Era 1958 After World War II 1982 Renovation of Harajyuku Central

Apartment

The officer of the United States

used to be located in Yoyogi Park

and made this area westernized.

・This place is called “Inden” because of having

been used as a hideout of ninja of the Tokugawa

Shogunate.

Shibuya river used to be running.

1964 Tokyo Olympic

This area used to be the place for

foreign athletes to live and was

influenced by them

Shibuya River Children Park Comfortable Path caled

Cat Street

Designers and artists lived in

Harajyuku Central Apartment.

Harajyuku have become cultural

SITE USE

19851980 1990 1997

Residences Firms and Factories Public Facilities Commercialized residences by convertion Vacant residences and lands

The apartment gradually decayed and

increased vacant rooms

Current Situation

1996　Demolition of Harajyuku Central

Apartment and begun commercialized

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FORM STUDY

1 Take 3.3ft from boundary of parcel and adjacent buildings

２ Extend line that I drew in step 1

３ Translate the lines that I made in step 2 to make Connecting Points

Determine volume by using Connecting Points that are made by translation.

６ Use parallel line that is in 20 ft from the line that is drawn in step 5 to secure space for alley４ Create 30ft yard to expand yard of adjacent preschool

Use parallel line that is in 100ft from preschool to set up gym 5

Primary volume

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7 Set back to widen adjacent road

８ Set back to widen narrow sidewalk of Meiji Road

９ Slide second story’s volume back to primary position to increase second floor area.

10 Slide second story’s volume to make roof in yard and alley

11 Make use of unused space that is closed by ajacent preschool

12 Adjust volume that is sticking out of site

13 Put third story’s volume on the same position as first floor to set up terrace

Expand volume to make rise of gallery diverse

Volume of second and first story 　　　　

Final volume

FORM STUDY

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Office Gym

Gallery

・Administration

・Management

・Basketball

・Badminton, Karate etc

Static Athletic

Shared Space

Coexistence

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I classified each room into three types of rooms such as academic, cultural, and athletic. I also

allocated shared space functioning as a Connecting Point and relaxation space between academic and athletic

rooms. I believe that this will help various types of people interact with each other.

Active StaticVarious

≒≒ ≒

≒ ≒≒

Young ElderlyVarious

AcademicAthletic Cultural

Use

User

Types of People

Coexistence

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1F

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1F

C

C’

B’

B

AA’

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2F

Computer room

Terrace

Atelier Fitness gym

Table tennis room Studio

Lobby

Japanese-styled room

2F

Static Cultural Athletic

C

C’

B’

B

A

A’

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Terraces

Lobbies

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3F

Japanese-styled room

Meeting room Tea ceremony room

Multiple functional room

Basketball court

Badminton court

Recreation room

Cooking room Library

Static Cultural Athletic

3F

C

C’

B’

B

A

A’

SECTION Connecting Point

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A-A’

B-B’

C-C’

Walls and Windows

Put the windows on the side of terrace and lobby as partitions of each room for users to

feel existence of diverse people and encourage users to make use of shared spaces.

Users can see other

people’s activities

vertically because of

shifted volumes

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1:200

north

south

east

west