TORAFU ARCHITECTS

A renovation plan for the 50-year-old station building, Tokyu Nagahara Station. Initially, repairing the deterioration of the ceiling base was the main purpose of this project, but we successively were also asked to create new value at Nagahara Station by not only restoring performance but also using wood as the project purpose.

Nagahara Station has a distinctive character; its platform is an underground installation, giving the impression of a civil engineering structure that intersects with Loop Road No.7 (Kan-nana Dori), while its building on the ground appears in the middle of a narrow shopping street with small shops. We considered the possibility of a way to realize a station building that can be the point of contact between people and the city and seamlessly connect the two as a part of everyday life to harmonize the fluctuation of the senses of scale so that people feel warmth and familiarity.
At the entrance on the ground floor, wooden louvers made of Tama-grown wood, add the warmth of wood to the space under the eaves that welcome people. On the platform floor, we provided an image of the gateway of town to the station building by linking the gate with continuous beams of the existing skeleton building that had been exposed. Line lightings were installed in V shapes at the top of the wooden louvers under the eaves to guide people walking toward the ticket gate. On the platform floor, rolling stocks approach under the existing illuminated beams as if passing through a tunnel of light.
The key color, moss green, inherited from the wall tiles that have existed since the completion of construction and has the effect of giving a sense of security to the people who visit at the beginning and end of the day while complementing the wooden louvers with its calm, deep, and gentle color.

We tried to create a station building that softly connects to the town through setting up close to the buildings and people's lives lined up in the alleys.