Ibis Sendagaya, Shibuya City Homes, Tokyo Real Estate, Japanese Apartments Architecture, Japan Accommodation Photos
Ibis Sendagaya in Tokyo
14 Jan 2022
Architecture: Kompas
Location: Sendagaya, near the National Stadium, Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan

Photos by Vincent Hecht
Located in a mixed use area in Sendagaya, near the National Stadium in Tokyo, the Ibis Sendagaya project is composed of two floors of tenant spaces and the client?s two-story residence above them. The main challenge of the project is how to accommodate comfortable residential environments and sufficiently profitable tenant spaces within the site constrains, which allowed only 160% of the maximum floor area ratio due to the narrow front street.

Ibis Sendagaya The client, a family of five who used to live in an ample detached house with a garden, had concerns about the spatial quality of their new house with less available floor area in a denser neighbourhood. Thus, we tried to make it as open and generous as possible by actively incorporating outdoor spaces, despite the difficult site constraints.

Despite the low floor area ratio allowance, the maximum building height of the site Is defined at 20m If the volume is adapted to the complicated shadow calculation.

However, most of the building nearby are kept lower than 10m to avoid extra code compliance processes. While the neighbourhood is relatively dense on the street level for residential use, we found potential open voids to create comfortable environm...