Masters Project at UEL - 2010

Awarded a Distinction / Top of the year Prize in Technical Studies / Global Reach Prize

Really long apartment building and markets along the Darsena

Located at Porta Ticinese in Milan, the project proposes a linear apartment building 400 meters

long, 28 meters high and 5 meters wide on the Darsena Basin. The building is positioned as a

new edge building to the basin and allows space for 5 market buildings to sit on a ‘protective

deck’ above the remains of the old city wall. Within the façade of this building are large openings

providing ‘vertical courtyard’ spaces for each apartment and allowing views south through this

thin building from the neighboring apartments.

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Residential Floor Plan

Upper level

Middle（  Access level）

Plan

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1. Access Hall

2. Kitchen / Dining Room

3. Living Room

4. Bedroom

5. Study Room / Office

6. Storage Room

7. Bathroom / Toilet

8. Garden Room

9. Void

One of Typical Residence Plan

TYPE-B :

Maisonette for

Couple / Family with 1-2 children

Perspective View from the bedroom

Section

Section Detail - Protective deck

1. 50 mm precast concrete tile

2. steel C-channel

3. 6 / 100 mm underthroating steel flat

4. steel beam I-section 150 / 300 mm

5. steel column I-section 150 / 150 mm

6. existing ruin of City wall

7. cast-iron channel

8. φ300 mm PVC drainpipe

9. 80 mm protective concrete

10. sealing layer

11. reinforced concrete slab to falls

12. 300 / 200 mm concrete block

13. 30 mm bed of mortar

14. 10 / 50 mm steel flat balustrade

15. 5 / 22 mm underthroating steel flat .

Underground garage the Darsena

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Professional Work at Kume Sekkei - 2007

Small Storage for Disaster

Located at the foot of a hill in Akasaka, Tokyo, this building has two functions. Firstly it is a

retaining wall that cuts into the hill, secondly it is a storage space in case of a natural disaster.

I made an effort to express this formation process in the design approach. The retaining wall

creates the space in which to place another wall, which begins to create the architecture. Each

subsequent element is enabled by the preceding one, so that each element - roof, opening

section, fixtures - is assembled in order. In addition the detailing of the parapet and fixtures

represents the formation process, but on a smaller scale.

Process

Masters Project at Meiji University - 2006

Top of the year Prize

100-Year Time-Space Museum of Kawasaki Waterfront

Kawasaki’s waterfront area has developed into a heavily industrialised area during the 20th

century through the process of land reclamation. Natural elements were not retained during the

proccess of industrialization, and huge land reclamation and industrial buildings were placed

without relation to the past. This proposal is an effort to regenerate the waterfront area by

reconnecting the places to their past.

A museum to exhibit the dramatic transformation of space over time in Kawasaki is proposed as

a pilot project for the Urban Design Proposal. Four significant events in the 100 year history of

land reclamation are transformed into negative volumes within the building. The exhibition is

then organized according to the spatial setting that reflects the timescape.

1. Void of Disposal

2. Void of Transportation

3. Void of Filling in Land

4. Void of Keihin Canal

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Current Coast Line Coast Line in 1900s Coast Line in 1850s

Iriezaki Water Treatment Plant

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Siohamabashi Park

Tokaido Freigh Line

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Current Coast Line Coast Line in 1900s Coast Line in 1850s

Iriezaki Water Treatment Plant

Shrine: gardians for the marine19011923195619732000

Siohamabashi Park

Tokaido Freigh Line

Self-build work - 2006

A.I.A. Japan design Award - Award of Merit

Temporary Stage for “Othello in Noh-style”

This project was a temporary stage in the Japanese garden of the Tokyo National Museum. The

stage was for “Othello in Noh-style” by Ku Na’uka theatre company. Standing on ground which

slopes gently down to a pond, the stage was designed to appear to the audience as if it were

floating on the pond.

- Assemblage by self-build / Easily-disassembled Timbered Frame System

We adopted a ‘SE construction method’ to save time and money. This technique involves joining

prefabricated laminated wood with bespoke hardware and driftpins. The stage was completed in

one day thanks to systemized construction methods of repeating a timber rigid frame.

Built-up Process

International Design Competition - 2006

Invitation Works

Soft bounday -Vitreous Curtain-

- Light storing fibreglass curtain

This curtain is made of light storing fibreglass. The system uses the energy from sunlight which

is stored during the daytime and becomes luminous at night. The luminescence slightly blurs the

boundary between inner and outer space. While the curtain separates and defines inside and

outside, the light gently connects them. The light also creates a specific atmosphere in the dark.

This vitreous curtain produces light and creates a space, it is a soft boundary which connects the

inside and outside.

1st Daiwa House Residential Design Competition - 2005

Second Prize

Catenated house

I proposed breaking down the nominal “family unit” into individual parts and then re-assembling it.

01. The site is a new residential area near Tokyo city. It is a block subdivided by modernist urban

planning of the 20th century.

02. One individual living unit is composed of three quadrangular interior spaces - Living room,

Kitchen room and Private room - plus a triangular exterior space. These units spread throughout the

site and create a varied pattern of life.

03. Residents of the house inhabit the space as an individual. They spend time in their private room,

but regularly pass into the living and kitchen rooms throughout the day. Living and kitchen rooms

are shared between the residents. This produces overlap in their lives and creates a new concept of

what a family unit should be.

Exhibition - 2004

Landscape of Time in Kawasaki

This exhibition takes the form of an installation that displays the history of Nikaryo-yosui and

Ento-bunsui, which are the irrigation channels in Kawasaki, laid out over 400 years ago. From

analysing and researching the site context, we produced 320mm square diagrams to map several

variables such as greenery, water, ground, buildings and roads. These were displayed on steel

plinths of varying height, laid out on a grid to show the chronological change along an axis of

each variable.

Hiroki Matsushige

2010-Current Richard Wilson Sculptor Studio

2009-2010 Masters in Architecture, University of East London

2006-2009 Kume Sekkei Co., Ltd

2004-2006 MSc in Architecture, Meiji University

2000-2004 BEng in Architecture, Meiji University

Awards

8th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia: Final Presenter (Academic session)

Masters Project at UEL: Distinction / Top of the year Prize in Technical Studies / Global Reach Prize

Temporary Stage for “Othello in Noh-style”: AIA JAPAN Design Award - Award of Merit

Masters Project at Meiji University: Top of the year Prize / 29th LEMON Exhibition - Exhibitor

International Design Competition 2005, JDF: Invitation Works

9th TEPCO Inter-University Design Competition: Honorable Mention

1st Daiwa House Residential Design Competition: Second Prize

2nd Nikkei Architecture Design Competition: Second Prize

Diploma Design Project at Meiji University: Distinction

Professional Qualification

First-class Architect license / 一級建築士

Contact

+ 44 (0) 75 1786 0285

h.matsushige@gmail.com