Umegaoka Village is a Residential/ Commercial complex of 3 Buildings in
a residential neighborhood coming through a vibrant shopping street. This
complex is required to maximize commercial spaces on the ground floor.
However the Building Standard Law doesn’t allow commercial function to
exceed over 50sqm in a single site at the category 1 low rise exclusive
residential zone.
We decided to divide a single site into 3 small sites in order to have
commercial areas to be 50x3=150sqm.
Additionally Central court yard is placed in between the 3 volumes so that occasionally independent shops can be operated as one for parties.
This segmentation of small village will bring Natural light and Ventilation
into the spaces through the central void to improve living conditions in
a dense residential urban condition.