Located in one of the leading edge design areas of the city of Tokyo is the “Tokyo Museum Tower,” which has all of the lines of action aimed at its central idea, which is haute couture: the Historic Museum of Fashion, with its catwalks and areas for new trends in fashion.
One of the requirements that stood out in this challenge was the high cost of a building of this magnitude in a city such as Tokyo. Raising a 100 mt. tower within a space of 20 x 20 mts led us to project three-tiered and twisted elements in the one same part of the building: the first of these elements deals with the pedestrian level directly referring to the historic scale of the city of Tokyo; the second element was resolved in relation to the district and its contemporaneous buildings whilst the third obtained its most slender scale, rendering it as an urban icon.
At a functional level, the base was split up into four equal parts, one of which acted as the center point for the vertical and structural connections of the tower. Out of this base sprang two diverging and tortuous volumes, which continued upwards.
From a conceptual and functional point of view – by way of its twisted projection – it became a vertical corridor that is housed within the three scales previously mentioned.