This tenant building is in the residential neighborhood facing thenarrow street from one block away from Aoyama Ave, by contrast toa number of tall buildings along the way. Situated in this gapbetween these two scales, we aim to stand the one in a way thatdoesn’ t belong to both of these scales.

The shape of the building is fairly bent skywards, like a stomachbeing stuck out forward, which does not allow people to tell howmany stories it has in looking up the building from the street. Thedesign of two slit patterned windows that opens on each level alsomakes unclear the scale. Sunlight reflected on the curved outer walllike gradation, while inside of the room it streams in through thewindows. Based on the concept of “abstraction “,we design a newway of the encounter between architecture and people.