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UR Akabanedai Fab Studio & Workshop

  • #Design Build
  • #Interior
Client
UR (Urban Renaissance Agency)
Year
2026 (2025.12 - 2026.03)
Scope
Design, Fabrication & Construction
Area
UR Akabanedai Housing Complex Building 41, Akabanedai, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Specifications
Shina plywood, melamine-faced board, white-painted MDF

Overview

プロジェクトの概要
A workshop on the ground floor of a housing estate, where residents become makers
団地の1階に、住民がつくり手になる工房を
A project that began on the ground floor of Building 41 at the UR Akabanedai housing complex after VUILD's proposal was selected in the “Machi to Kurashi Trial Competition” (Town and Living Trial Competition). In 2024, VUILD held a series of workshops, including planning sessions with local residents on how to use the plaza and making sessions with a ShopBot brought on site. From 2025, VUILD took part in developing three labs that carry these activities forward, the Kitchen Lab, the Craft Lab, and the Design Lab, handling everything from spatial and furniture design to fabrication and installation for the Craft Lab. For the other two labs, VUILD fabricated and installed the furniture.
団地の1階に、住民がつくり手になる工房を
「まちとくらしのトライアルコンペ」で提案が採択され、UR赤羽台団地41号棟の1階で始まったプロジェクト。2024年は、地域住民とひろばの使い方を考える企画ワークショップや、ShopBotを持ち込んだものづくりのワークショップを重ねた。2025年からは、その活動を引き継ぐ「キッチンラボ」「クラフトラボ」「デザインラボ」の整備に参画し、クラフトラボでは空間・家具の設計から製作・施工までを担当した。ほかの2つのラボでは什器の製作と設置を行った。

02 Process

プロセス
Completion Photos
竣工写真

The Craft Lab is equipped with a DesktopMax and DIY tools so that local residents can take part in making things themselves. All the interior fittings were machined with a ShopBot: white-painted MDF is cut with slits based on the silver ratio, forming a tile-like design inspired by paper sizes. Storage compartments are set at an angle to keep boards and tools partly out of sight, balancing the practicality of a workshop with the look of the space.

The fittings, which read like sheets of paper piling up, express a place where ideas emerge from the blank margins. In the Kitchen Lab (interior design: JUNPEI NOUSAKU ARCHITECTS) and the Design Lab (interior design: Tatsuya Orito), VUILD fabricated and installed the furniture.

竣工写真

クラフトラボにはDesktopMaxとDIY工具を導入し、地域住民が自らものづくりに参加できる環境を整えた。内装造作はすべてShopBotで加工し、白く塗装したMDFに白銀比のスリットを入れた、紙のサイズをモチーフとするタイル状のデザインとした。収納部は斜めに設けて板材や道具を視界から適度に隠し、工房としての使い勝手と空間の見え方を両立している。

紙が集積するような造作によって、余白からアイデアが生まれる場を表現している。キッチンラボ（内装デザイン：JUNPEI NOUSAKU ARCHITECTS）とデザインラボ（内装デザイン：織戸龍也氏）では、VUILDが什器の製作と設置を担った。

Credit

クレジット

Design

Project Management
  • Jun Utsunomiya VUILD
Design Direction
  • Hayato Kurobe VUILD
Design
  • Toshiki Nishimura VUILD
Kitchen Lab Architectural Design
  • JUNPEI NOUSAKU ARCHITECTS
Kitchen Lab Production Design
  • Shunya Kaneko VUILD
Design Lab Architectural Design
  • Tatsuya Orito Iwabuchi Yamorisha
Design Lab Production Design
  • Shimpei Ogawa VUILD
Detailed Design and Supervision
  • OpenA

Construction

Fabrication and Installation
  • Toshiki Nishimura VUILD
  • Shunya Kaneko VUILD
  • Kazuki Nagao VUILD
  • Shimpei Ogawa VUILD

Photography

Photography
  • Hayato Kurobe

It’s okay if you haven’t decided what to create yet.
Across design, fabrication, and construction,
we design the very path to realization itself.
Please feel free to get in touch.

It’s okay if you haven’t decided what to create yet. Across design, fabrication, and construction, we design the very path to realization itself. Please feel free to get in touch.

何をつくるか、まだ決まっていなくても構いません。設計、製造、施工を横断し、「実現の道筋」 そのものを設計します。ぜひ、お気軽にお問い合わせください。

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