ORANGE, is a residential project that accommodates a space where children can touch the raw world with their innate, pure sensitivity. The irregular spatial form of this project, was a product of chance whose main goal is to get the two children living there shall not lose their pure sensitivity for ever, without limiting his possibilities about the ways to perceive, communicate and interact with and the world.

Description of the project by Atelier Norisada Maeda.

Our recent residential project ORANGE is intended to realize a space where children can touch the raw world with their innate, pure sensitivity.

The concept has its root in my personal absorption in phenomenological and ontological spatial studies during college.

The strong interest came from my fundamental frustration and intuitive objection against the process through which a person – even though being born with limitless possibility about the ways to perceive, communicate and interact with and the world - gradually deteriorates to a stereotypical adult, or so-called “ordinary man” as he/she grows up. The answer seemed to be found in inquiry into human spatial recognition and its chronological change.

Instead of a lengthy abstract analysis, I would like to refer to one short movie titled "Sweet Baby Experiences Rain for the Very First Time". What it shows is a striking evidence that pouring rain – just an ordinary, cold, mostly unwelcome phenomena – is nothing but a sparkling manifestation of the world-in-life, or rain itself, for a girl who experiences it for the very first time. Even an ordinary rain brings an ecstatic joy to a person, as long as he/she maintains the fresh sensitivity to the world, or the rain itself.

Architectural space should have such a sparkling singularity instead of mundane machine-for-living efficiency, and it shouldn’t be easily lost through its daily use,: my belief is that an architectural work should always bring about a chance to activate the sensitivity to the space itself.
ORANGE is a realization of the parents’ and our wish that the two children living there shall not lose their pure sensitivity for ever.

A final note: the irregular spatial form of this project, in fact, was almost a product of chance. It suddenly came into this world when one of our staff was playing with a heating cutter, rotating a lump of styrene form as he cut it. At that point, he had no intention at all to come up with a sophisticated architectural design. True absorption in an innocent play with chance, in fact, was where we found the right seed of ORANGE, or the House for Children.

Text.- Atelier Norisada Maeda.

 

CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-

Architects(firm).- Atelier Norisada Maeda.
Principal Architect.- Norisada Naeda.
Person in charge.- Ryuji Shiraishi.
Structural Engineering.- Ryozo Umezawa.
Contractor.- Shinozaki Building Contractor’s Office.
Character of Space.- private residence .
Client.- Husband and wife and two children.
Occupation of the Client.- company president.
Total Floor Area.- 120.95㎡.
Building Area.- 43.43㎡.
Site Area.- 72.39㎡.
Principal Materials.- Waterproofed  paint.
Principal Structure.- Steal.
Location.- Meguro,Japan.

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Norisada Maeda nació en Tokio en 1960. Se graduó en Arquitectura en la Universidad de Kyoto en 1985, cuando comenzó a trabajar en Taisei Corporation durante los siguientes cinco años, principalmente en grandes proyectos y rascacielos. Atelier Norisada Maeda Architects & Associates fue fundado en 1990, donde ha desarrollado sus principales proyectos en residencias privadas, condominios, edificios de oficinas y los diseño de tiendas. Maeda es, además, profesor visitante en diversas universidades como la Universidad de Nihon, Universidad Hosei, de la Universidad de Ciencias de Tokio, Universidad Kokushikan y la Universidad Kyoto Seika.
 

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Published on: October 9, 2014
Cite: "'Orange' by Atelier Norisada Maeda." METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/orange-atelier-norisada-maeda> ISSN 1139-6415
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