CHISUI-KAN
EIICHI SUGIURA ARCHITECTS & ASSOCIATES+KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING
- Outline
- This is the company housing of the Structural Planning Institute, the designer and owner of the building, in Suginami-ku, Tokyo. The building has a 3-dimensional seismic isolation structure that reduces seismic shaking in both horizontal and vertical directions. The seismic isolation is also effective against vertical shaking caused by a direct-type earthquake. In the Great East Japan Earthquake, the horizontal shaking was reduced by 42% and the vertical shaking by 28%.
- Location
- Tokyo
- Journal
- Shinkenchiku August 2011 issue
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