Aida Atelier, Inc.

Saijo Clinic

SAIJO CLINIC

Aida Atelier: Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

ARCHITECTS
Aida Atelier: Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

AREA
116.56 m²

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Shinjuku, Japan

CATEGORY
Offices Interiors

Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

AIDA ATELIER, SAIJO CLINIC

Saijo Clinic is a private mental health clinic with short-care/group-care programs on the 11th floor penthouse of a building facing Shinjuku Gyoen Park, 58ha urban park located in central Tokyo.

The penthouse was originally built as a part of a gigantic signboard on rooftop.The sign graphic was later abolished.By newly introduced landscape regulations, however, the space inside left over.

Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida
Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

In designing the interior of the clinic, we sought to incorporate the extraordinary contrast between different urban scales.

DIAGRAM

While treating the skyline of buildings and vast green as borrowed landscape, we proposed a clinic as the continuum of simple huts.

Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida
Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

In other words, it is a clinic as comfortable as a small rural house, and yet floating in the heart of metropolis. Those huts take various forms of relationship each other: interlocking, adjacent or nested.

It does not only provide a solution for the complex program of.The clinic but also becomes a spatial representation of the concept of the clinic to obscure the boundary of the treatment field and daily life.

Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida
Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida

Furthermore, views of vast urban panorama framed by square windows of the intimate huts would constantly destabilize the sense of place, providing both comfort and surprise.


Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida
Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida
Saijo Clinic
© Aida Atelier - Tomoro Aida


Saijo Clinic
Saijo Clinic


Saijo Clinic
Saijo Clinic

Aida Atelier, Inc.
T +81 3 62659905 F +81 3 62659910
Aida Atelier, Inc.
3-3 Akagi-Motomachi, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 162-0817, Japan