For the renovation plan associated with the establishment of the first faculty of architecture in Japan, the primary aims were to improve seismic performance and provide an educational environment as a faculty of architecture.
The seismic resistant walls adopting the outer frame method (with partial interior seismic resistant walls) create a flow of white veil on the building, generating the figure-ground relationship between the 'building' and the 'veil,' in a design that tunes the campus.
At the entrance, the space is sectioned into folds to create an environment where several activities take place all at once and interact with each other. By looking at the different learning areas as 'buildings' and communal areas as 'exterior space,' the design is composed in a way that the outer walls of the 'buildings' materialize in the 'exterior space' on the standard floor. Each 'building' is open to the 'exterior' according to the density of activities and produces "the city within the Faculty of Architecture" where activities of the students stimulate each other.
As the first faculty of architecture in Japan, it was designed to create "a platform where the educational environment itself is socialized" as spontaneous encounters happen simultaneously and motivate each other.