Stack
In the amorphous complexity of central Tokyo, the scale of the city’s organization is too vast to be perceived by the pedestrian observer. At street level, urban form is either incoherent or irrelevant; the Tokyo experience is a succession of interior spa
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Stack / In the amorphous complexity of central Tokyo, the scale of the city’s organization is too vast to be perceived by the pedestrian observer. At street level, urban form is either incoherent or irrelevant; the Tokyo experience is a succession of interior spaces. The city appears to consist of mute volumes, their only apparent relationship one of simple adjacency. Located near Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo, Stack is Tokyo urbanism in microcosm. From the outside, it is a haphazard stack of three boxes clad in different materials: concrete, stone, aluminum. Internally, vertical voids connect and complicate the three levels. Although the house seems to be sealed off from its surroundings, the closure is incomplete: spatial and visual connections are maintained through the horizontal and vertical slots that result from “slippage” between the solid volumes. Additional slippage between elements is manifest at every level: long and narrow courtyard gardens result from the misalignment of the boxes, handrails transform from incisions to protrusions as they pass between layers, walls delaminate at their edges; boxes nest within boxes, corners are misaligned. These abrupt juxtapositions are balanced by the subtle visual links created by light shafts carved through the functional spaces within the house, and between the house interior and the exterior environment. Life occurs in the interstices.
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Composition = Stacking
Relationship = Proximity
Section, scale 1:350
Section, scale 1:350
Third-floor plan, scale 1:350
Second-floor plan, scale 1:350
First-floor plan, scale 1:350
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Program / single-family house Location / Yoyogi, Tokyo Structure / reinforced concrete (first and second floor), steel (third floor) Total floor area / 5,114 square feet (475 square meters) Site area / 2,481 square feet (231 square meters) Design period / August 1998–January 1999 Construction period / February 1999–August 1999 Contractor / I. D. International
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