The new three-dimensional courthouse in the city.

© Hiroshi Ueda

Architects: UID Architects

Location: Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Architect In Charge: Keisuke Maeda

Area: 141.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda

General Contractor: Home Co. Ltd.

Consultants: Konishi Structural Engineers, Yasutaka Konishi, Toshiya Ogino Environment Design Office, Toshiya Ogino

© Hiroshi Ueda

From the architect. The new three-dimensional courthouse in the city.A plan in the housing built in the center of Fukuyama city. The site where touch the north side frontal road is bent slenderly in north and south, and the site is enclosed by housing and a building. The sky, the water, the earth sunlight and the environment like house in mountain that a look and interactive relationship with animals and plants are born also to play some time abundant in daily life in such site.
© Hiroshi Ueda

A courthouse-like element was taken in the interior in three dimensions aiming at the relationship into which a person can expand the reach with concerning more, not the relationship sheltered from circumference outside. We cut site to 3 volumes and expected the connection with the external environment.

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3 shells were formed by 6 RC independent...