HIRAKATA T-SITE-Protruding Box Structures Form Expressive Facade and Improve Seismic Resistance-

摘要

The HIRAKATA T-SITE is a proposal-type commercial facility with a combination of floors with diverse kinds of themes, centering on books. It was opened in 2017 in front of the Hirakata Station in Osaka. Its outstanding structural feature is a glass curtainwall that widely opens to the streets and a building appearance that is composed of protruding box construction. A comfortable atrium spreads within the building. (Photo 1)