AU / YASUAKI ONISHI

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ORDEREORDER is the home, studio, and gallery of an artist, which organizes its program, form, structure, circulation, and utilities on the premise of natural fluidity whilst redefining ordinary elements of the house. Natural fluidity is a way of organizing space which eliminates the process of manipulation to fit everything into an idealistic box- this method rather allows the architecture to occur naturally by simply addressing the needs of the design and ‘connecting the dots.’ First, an assessment of requirements of the artist’s house is made and these elements are laid out on a spectrum of least to most private (gallery, studio, living, bath, bedroom). This assessment determines the program which in turn informs how the building’s form, structure, and circulation can be built around pre-existing needs. The floorplates are laid out in such a way that allows for efficient circulation and interaction between related parts of the program; the structure and skin are then built around the floorplates and massing of height. Next, the utilities are routed directly to their outputs and are enclosed within protective piping rather than being placed within a wall. Through this process every part of the building’s composition is derived from the initial set of needs and is executed in the most efficient way possible. Amidst this spatial organization, the functionality and experience of the building itself are altered by the repurposing of ordinary architectural elements: the gutter, utilities, and structure. The two large columns function both structurally and as rain gutters that collect water funneled down from the roof, and empty water into an underground cistern (recycling the water to be used in toilets, heating, and cooling). The division of space is defined by the abnormally routed utilities and structure forming inverted walls in which the services (normally concealed by walls) become spatial boundaries. The ORDEREORDER house exploits an architecture that focuses on a needs-based ordering of design, and an exciting, efficient reordering of the mundane.

AU / YASUAKI ONISHI