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Shuhei Endo's playful designs with suspended steel sheets add a whimsical edge to his Rooftecture creations for the O-RUSH used car dealerships constructed throughout Japan.
The Rooftecture projects, eight buildings designed by Osaka-based architect Shuhei Endo for the Japan-based used car dealership, O-RUSH, are whimsical structures with sweeping cantilevered roofs and continuous suspended steel sheets that minimize interior walls, leaving room to show off the glimmering cars inside.
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Springtecture O-T, the O-RUSH showroom in Nagoya, is a continuous suspended steel sheet that wraps itself around the steel frame to define the floor, ceiling, and roof as one continuous band, comprising a two-story 928-square foot showroom.
In a similar use of suspended steel, Endo utilized a one-story structural steel frame from an existing building and covered it with a new roof for the Kyoto O-RUSH building, Rooftecture O-K. Contact points within the building’s frame stabilize the continuous suspended steel sheet roof that begins at ground level on one end, and waves upward to cover the two-story showroom. The thickness of the steel sheets provides self-weighted stress, opposing gravity. The glazed facade opens the 2,000-plus-square-foot interior to natural daylighting.
The one-story difference in elevation from the maintenance space to the two-story showroom of the building is united with a continuous visual context under the sinuous metallic roof.
Formal name of building:
Rooftecture O-K
Location:
Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Completion Date: 2006
Gross square footage: 634㎡
Owner:
TCLA
Architect:
Shuhei Endo / 6F,3-21,
Suehiro-cho, Kita-ku,
Osaka, 530-0053,Japan
Tel+81-6-6312-7455
Fax+81-6-6312-7456
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