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Kanagawa University Minato Mirai Campus

Kanagawa University Minato Mirai Campus

This is the first comprehensive university campus to be built in Minato Mirai 21 District. Multi-layered outdoor terraces and staircases are installed on the lower to mid-floors. Each floor connects to the learning commons inside the building. The upper floors are equipped with seminar spaces that double as staircases and open-shelf book storage. The plan is to turn the entire building into a place of learning, rather than confining students to labs or classrooms. Equipped with an industry-academia-government collaboration facility, a lifelong learning facility, a hall, and more, the facility is open to the community without a perimeter fence around the site, and the aim was to create an urban high-rise facility that is different from an office building.

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Year of completion2020
LocationYokohama-city kanagawa prefecture

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Building usage Educational institutions
Site area7,848㎡
Total floor area50,568㎡
Scale22 floors above ground, 1 floor below ground
structureS construction, partially RC construction, SRC construction
Details of the Award

・ JILA Selected Works of Landscape Architecture 2024, Space Design Category (Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture /Japan)

・ 64th Kanagawa Architecture Concours /2022, Architecture Category Appeal Award (Landscape) (Kanagawa Prefecture and so forth/Japan)

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Our BusinessDesign, Construction Supervision
photographKawasumi・Kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office, Mitsubishi Jisho Design

In terms of Landscape, we aimed to create a space that would encourage people to walk freely in all directions, even though it is an urban high-rise campus.
The building was planned as the skeletal axis of the campus, with the higher floors positioned in the center and the lower floors housing community open facilities and a variety of terrace spaces, creating a three-dimensional flow of space.The rooftop terrace and plaza serve as "outdoor commons," providing a place for students to learn, interact, and relax.

Update : 2023.02.01

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