Green Layers
Project description
In Viikki, there are diverse people from students to professors to their family to the young professionals living together. They are all doing different activities. To accommodate every need of not only the inhabitants, but also all the people using this area, we thought about using rich green in the site context. From vast green covering Viikki, to the existing tree on the site, or even to the small flowers in the vase in some rooms, the Green Layers creates and connects multiple spaces.
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Yosuke Komiyama is an architect and researcher on timber construction/sustainable design. He graduated the University of Tokyo in 2005 and studied at Technische Universität München. He completed master degree at the University of Tokyo in 2007 and received his Ph.D in 2019. From 2007 to 2014 he worked at Horden Cherry Lee Architects in London and was involved in the design of a seven storey affordable housing using CLT and BIPV. After returning to Japan he worked on several pioneering CLT architectural projects before he joined Kyoto University in 2017 where he is now jr. associate professor.