Structural Designer
Structured Environment
Client Name
Private
Location
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Judge's comment: This unusual building demonstrates what can be done by re-thinking conventional structural solutions for domestic buildings, resulting in an innovative and eye-catching composition. With the significant seismic resistance being provided by the stair core, and the very slender corner supports restrained by an ingenious connection detail, the engineer has created a light and transparent façade to reveal the whole assembly as an integrated structural system.
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