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Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy by TKY Japan
This tiny gabled pharmacy is squeezed into a narrow alleyway between two towering apartment blocks in Osaka.
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Japanese architects Yasuo Imazu of Ninkipen!, Toshikatsu Ienari and Kenta Fukunishi collaborated to design the project, under the collective identity TKY Japan.
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Behind the glazed facade, an exposed skeleton of wooden columns and rafters surrounds the building’s long, thin interior.
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A wood and steel staircase at the back of the pharmacy leads up to a mezzanine, positioned above an enclosed office.
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You can see more projects by Ninkipen! here, including a bakery with an exposed concrete counter.
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Photography is by Hiroki Kawata.
Here's some more explanation from Yasuo Imazu:
This is a new construction of a Pharmacy, in the center of Osaka city area of Japan.
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The site once used to be a farm road. When the World War II ended, a small house was built on the road and stayed there illegally for several ten years. After the house was removed, the site then became a residential land.
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In front of this newly built pharmacy, there are remains of a sidewalk, which define an original function of the site used to have, thus the building is set back.
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That the site was a road, and that there was a small illegally-built house, were the two historical contexts we valuated as the uniqueness of the site.
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The form of the building follows the shape of the site with a gabled roof on top which realizes the simplest form of a house. The continuous ceiling which visually creates almost a linear perspective reflects the linear shape of the site, the path or the road.
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Though it is surrounded by volumetric urban buildings, we kept the minimum volume of a single story house, recalling a persisting memory of the site, the little house.
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The structure is consisted of simple steel-frame which allows the wood columns and rafters to be exposed, thus provides warm and intimate atmosphere to the customers.
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Project name: Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy
Architect: TKY JAPAN(Toshikatsu Ienari, Kenta Fukunishi, Yasuo Imazu/ninkipen!
Use: dispensing pharmacy
Location: Osaka, Japan
Design: 2010.12〜2011.7
Construction: 2011.8〜2011.11
Site area: 96.22m2
Building area: 61.94m2
Total floor area: 61.94m2