JAPAN NATIONAL STADIUM BY JACKSON ARCHITECTURE

Design proposal for the new national Stadium of Japan located in Tokyo. Designed by Jackson Architecture, their proposal for the Japan National Stadium is a new stadium in a park, where nature is apparent and can be integrated.

Car parking, buses, community and service facilities exist below the park: neighborhood recreation and health areas contribute to the excitement and atmosphere, inhabited every day.

The first impression is of a large park, within which a large “ellipsoidal object is placed.

The stadium capacity is for 80,000 spectators and can be utilized for rugby, soccer, athletics and concerts.

The stadium bowl lies within a podium that houses all facilities underneath while creating spaces for public parks and recreational areas above, thus providing more public space within the urban fabric of Tokyo.

The stadium bowl is designed to be naturally ventilated and open in plan to allow for maximum comfort to players and promote cross air flows at pitch level creating a venturi Effect.

Player comfort is important and by lowering the bowl and creating a “cool sink” with the playing field, we enhance player comfort to promote their best performance.

A light weight roof has been designed to reduce resource use and lower costs. This create less of a financial impact and environmental impact.

The roof has been designed with modularity and prefabrication in mind to again increase sustainability for the project.

Passive solar design and the use of ETFE panels with PV cells over laid on the skin of the roof allows for patrons to be protected from the elements, enjoy diffuse natural daylight whilst the roof panels generate renewable energy from the sun.

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Architects: Jackson Architecture

Project Team: Daryl Jackson, Matthew Drysdale, Colin Wilson, Elaine Quek, Kon Iakovidis, Aaron Paris, Matt Myers, and Esther Parsons

Architects in Association: Lacoste + Stevenson

Project Team: Thierry Lacoste, David Stevenson

Consulting Engineers: Arup Sydney

Year: 2012

G-FLAT BY ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP

La raffinatezza e la cura dei dettagli sono tratti distintivi nei progetti dello studio Architecture Workshop, senza eccessivi virtuosismi ma con un ricerca compositiva a favore di uno spazio aperto e con una particolare attenzione alla vivibilità .

Questo progetto conferma questi intenti e prosegue nella ricerca attraverso un sistema strutturale, realizzato in pilastri in acciaio e pareti portanti al centro di ogni blocco, che libera totalmente il perimetro delle abitazioni.

Una soluzione strutturale che diviene compositiva lasciando le facciate prive di vincoli strutturali e consentendo ad ogni abitazione una propria forma spaziale, come una casa indipendente.

Ciò favorisce l’interconnessione tra le diverse abitazioni e migliora il rapporto tra esterno ed interno, favorito da ampie pareti interamente vetrate.

Il riferimento alle verande in stile “engawa”, tipiche nelle case giapponesi, si evidenzia con l’installazione di una doppia linea di pareti in legno scorrevoli che regolano la privacy e la luminosità.

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Architects: Koh Kitayama – architecture WORKSHOP

Design Team: Koh Kitayama, Mariko Hama, Yurie Kobayashi, Hiroko Hasama, Toru Kudo

Project Year: 2006

Project Area: 2635.78 sqm

Photographs: Daici Ano

TADAO ANDO: NEW STADIUM TOKIO 2020

The Japan Sport Council (JSC) that owns the iconic Kasumigaoka National Stadium, home to the Tokyo '64 Games, has launched an international design contest for its renovation. The stadium is a feature in the Tokyo 2020 bid and will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

In keeping the legacy, the JSC opted to remodel the facility as opposed to building a new one from scratch for historic reasons as well as environmental ones.

The facelift will restore the Kasumigaoka National Stadium to its place as one of the world’s most technically advanced stadia and will expand the crowd capacity to 80,000.

The prize for the winner will be 20 million Yen (approximately US$ 255k) and participants will be judged by the Kasumigaoka National Stadium International Design Contest's Panel.

It will include including world-renowned architect Tadao Ando and the international panelists are Richard Rogers, the artist behind the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and Norman Foster, the designer of the new Wembley Stadium in London.

The winner of the design contest will be decided in late November of this year.


STORY:

Jun 23, 2011 - The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said Tokyo would be a "very strong" candidate to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, a Japanese media report said on Saturday."Tokyo was having a good bid last time," IOC president Jacques Rogge was quoted as saying in Lausanne on Friday.

"It did not win but the bid was very strong, so we considered that should there be (another Tokyo bid), we believed it was going to be a very strong bid."

Set 3, 2009 - Edward Lifson interviews the masterplanner of the 2016 Tokyo Olympic bid. [The Architect's Newspaper]

So if Tokyo gets the games you won't design a signature stadium. Is that out of “modesty and lack of ego?”
[Ando laughs] I don't know! Here's what I want to do: Right now Japan is kind of closed toward the world. I want to open Japan, and create a symbol of the openness. To create a country full of more possibilities for younger Japanese people, and to show young architects and young people worldwide that they can work and live and invest in Japan. So having a competition for the new stadium would be symbolic.

What if it's won by a Japanese architect?
It might be! It'll be an open competition.

2009 - In its bid for the 2016 Summer Games, the land of the rising sun unveils an ambitious plan to actualize history’s first Green Olympics. Designed by the famed Tadao Ando, the proposed Olympics stadium is an attempt to recreate Nature’s harmony.

Tokyo's stadium, designed by Tadao Ando, would seat 100,000 spectators, though it would be reduced to 80,000 after the Games of Tokyo 2016.

Project by Tadao Ando:

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FORUM BY RAFAEL VIÑOLY

The Tokyo International Forum, Japan's largest congress center, is situated on the boundary between Marunouchi, Tokyo's central business area and the Ginza shopping and entertainment district.

 
The International Forum includes two theaters, one among the largest in the world, over 6,000 square meters of exhibition space, several conference rooms, restaurants, shops and other amenities. 

The main elements of the Forum are a 60 meter high hull-shaped glass and steel atrium on the west end of the site and a cluster of block like buildings, housing the theaters, restaurants and shops, along the east end of the site.

The two-block granite paved Plaza at the center of the complex serves not only as the entry point for the complex, but as a public space with seating among Zelkova trees and sculptures. 

 

The atrium and other structures are linked by two levels of underground space as well as several above ground glass encased catwalks. 

A series of civic functions; a library, mediatech, restaurants, cafes, shops, an art gallery, and a 24-hour multi-media theater provide the activities that give the space its public character.

 Under the Plaza a Concourse connects the public to local and regional rail networks, containing a food court with shopping, continuing education facilities and an International Exchange Salon, the circulation of the Concourse wraps around a central Exhibition Hall and becomes itself the main floor of the Glass Hall.

The soaring Glass Hall serves as the main reception area for the Forum. By using laminated glass the architects were able to allow sunlight into the below ground Lobby area. 

 

Laminated glass was also used for several walkways and bridges giving them the appearance of flying across space. 

A ramp along the length of the Glass Hall, leading to the top of the building, is intersected by a number of bridges that, in addition to connecting spaces, work as horizontal struts to resist the wind pressure on the walls of the Glass Hall.

Semicircular steel girders are suspended from the 210 meter long ceiling in a design which mimics the wooden frame of a ship.

The Glass Hall facade uses approximately 20,000 square meters of 17.5mm laminated, heat-strengthened glass.

Laminated glass is made by sandwiching a plastic interlayer between two panes of glass and has been commonly found in car windshields for nearly 60 years.

By using laminated glass, architects were able to meet both the aesthetic needs of the center's design, as well as provide the safety and comfort features necessary for a structure that would be highly populated.

"In Japan, the major obstacle to acceptance is to demonstrate commitment. It seems difficult for us nowadays to be committed for the long haul. I moved to Japan and took most of my office along. Together with those hired in Tokyo, we had 250 people from our office on site together with 800 engineers."

Rafael Viñoly

Completed: 1997
Client: Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Architects : Rafael Viñoly Architects
Structural : Structural Design Group Co.,Ltd
Site Area: 21,000 square meters
Building Area : 7,360 square meters
Total Floor Area : 40,400 square meters
Length : 208 meters
Width : 31.7 meters
Height : 57.5 meters
Total Steel Weight : 6,600 Ton

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