Project Name

Même

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Project Location

Taiki, Japan

Year of Completion

2011

Building Type

Residential

Building Massing

Low Rise

Project Architect

KENGO KUMA, KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES KENGO KUMA BUILDING CITY DESIGN OFFICE

Architect Location

2-24-8 Minami Aoyama Minato-ku , Tokyo 107-0062

Owner

LXIL JS Foundation

Student Author

Rui Guo

Climate

Cool summer humid continental climate (Dfb)

Application

Exterior, interior

Material and its Properties

Plastic material for cold climate and dynamic insulation system. Membrane material of polyester fluorocarbon coating, removable glass-fiber-cloth membrane, polyester insulator recycled from PET bottles. A membrane with polyester fluorocarbon coating wrapped the exterior of the building and a removable membrane for the inside. Between the two layers of the membrane is polyester insulator recycles from plastic bottles. This translucent system provides panoramic daylight and dynamic thermal quality which created by convecting the air between the two membrane layers.

Architect Website

http://kkaa.co.jp/

Other Sources

https://www.archdaily.com/322830/meme-experimental-house-kengo-kuma-associates

https://www.archdaily.com/322830/meme-experimental-house-kengo-kuma-associates/50ffec62b3fc4b78a5000069-meme-experimental-house-kengo-kuma-associates-photo

https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/50ff/ec79/b3fc/4b78/a500/0074/slideshow/_MG_0399.jpg?1413938652

https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/50ff/ec69/b3fc/4b78/a500/006e/slideshow/_MG_0050.jpg?1413938644

https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/memu-meadows-meme-prototype-kengo-kuma

Environmental Response

Recycled materials

Recommended Citation

KUMA, KENGO, "Même" (2011). Building Case Studies. 473.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bcs/473