Ka It Workshop
Ka It Workshop
Ka It Workshop
Junya Ishigami
To blur the boundary between indoors and out, Ishigami eliminated all openings
on the glass. Like traditional Japanese borrowed scenery, the surrounding
landscape serves as the backdrop for the interior.
Design Concept
Inside, the columns function as abstract trees and potted greenery serves a bona-
fide design role, not just a decorative one. By blending architecture and nature in
a remarkably fresh and dynamic way, KAIT Workshop plants Ishigami solidly
among those Japanese designers striving to reduce buildings to their bare
minimum.
Building Layout
KAIT workshop seems to be a big glass box with random columns, and be filled
in many different programs.
1 2 3
3. 263 post-tensioned columns that carry horizontal loads like mini sheer walls
Structure Feature Description of main structural system
42 columns
act as a stress member
「vertical support」
withstand a vertical load
263 columns
are given prestressed
「horizontal resistance」 as a tension member Total : 305 column
Structure Feature Junya Ishigami studio
Structure Engineer
Yasutaka Konishi
Building Components And System Identification of components
Height 4.2m
Unit section
Glass wall are around. Installing Columns are all thin and flat cuboid.
a glass rib helps it stability. And everyone has different orientations.
Building Components And System
Coated with white paint, each column is actually a slice of steel plate. Cut in
various widths from slabs of three different thicknesses, each was tailored to
the architect’s exacting specifications.
Identification of Components
Though both types of columns are anchored with simple concrete footings,
the compression and tension members connect to the roof frame with
welded and pin joints, respectively.
Connection Description
Because many of the supports do not align with the roof’s 5-by-3-foot girder
grid, Konishi inserted extra beams to bridge the gaps.
Lateral Resisting System Description
How it works?
The post-tensioned columns are anchored with simple concrete footings,
And also connect to the roof frame with welded and pin joints, respectively.
By doing this, it makes the building a whole system, make it has better responds to the
twisting and side-way.
Description of Loads
system
305
Load Transfer Path - Vertical Loads
Roof Loads
Ground Force
Load Transfer Path - Horizontal Loads
Lateral Loading
Foundation
Lateral loading behavior
Foundation
Finally, it is transferred to
the foundation.
Foundation and Soil
Flat, thin, long are those column’s characteristics, they are bearing each
responsibility , working cooperatively.
The most attractive point is that the thin and light column structure with
transparent glass made a fantasy and ambiguous space.
Summary