Naha City Gallery & Apartment house By 1100 Architect in Okinawa, Japan

Naha City Gallery & Apartment house By 1100 Architect

Naha City Gallery & Apartment house exterior facade

Naha City Gallery & Apartment house interior seating area

Naha City Gallery & Apartment house interior stairs

Naha City Gallery & Apartment house interior windows

Naha project includes a gallery, retail space, parking partially submerged, and three rental apartments that each occupies the whole floor. Courses vary united by a consistent focus on the interface of permeable interior and exterior. This design feature provides a dramatic lighting effects without sacrificing the feeling, personally closed. Transparent, translucent, frosted glass or used depending on the amount of privacy desired. The west and east walls are a mixture of solid cast concrete. Light entering through the small, placed in the windows along the stairs on the east and west of the apartment kitchen. mixed concrete is durable, affordable and widely used ingredients in Okinawa. Involve a contradiction is achieved as a channel cut along the edge of the large walls and floors evoke a lighter appearance.

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