House K

Sapporo, Japan

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House K

Sapporo, Japan

Firm

Yoshichika Takagi

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2009

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

For this
residential housing project, the client desired an open space within an indoor
environment. But at the same time, one of the other conditions was that it
should reveal the house shape on the exterior. This was on account of the
client’s wishes, as they liked the village feeling of being surrounded by other
residential houses, but the actual site was in the regular residential area
surrounded by manufactured houses.
Considering the cold climate in Hokkaido, it didn’t seem to
be the most appropriate solution to make a wide open interior space as
outdoors, yet, keeping the house shape on the exterior.
We tried to see if we could design a space that would be
‘indoor’ (which was closed in terms of the thermal environment) but would give
a feeling of being ‘outdoors’ as a backdrop within the building.

The given condition of making an open indoor space led
directly to the idea of making house-shaped indoor rooms. If these house shapes
were scattered, it would give a village-like view.

The shape of a house is a code for dividing space indoors
and outdoors, and a village is a code that implies outdoors. By using these
codes, we thought that an interweaved scenery of indoor and outdoor would be
made possible.

After some trials,
it seemed that a set of more than 3 house shapes would give a village feeling,
which would potentially create a relationship between indoor and outdoor.
If we could
cover these entirely with a bigger house shape, this would function as an
indoor space in terms of thermal environment.
Eventually,
we managed to create a interweaved scenery between ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’ by
placing 6 house-shaped profiles within one large exterior that envelops the
entire place.
One of the
six house shapes was made into an outdoor terrace. Indoors, there would be a
village-like view using the help of the code for outdoors, inside the building.
This kind of control functions to blur the definition of ‘indoors’ and
‘outdoors’, and this is where interweaving takes place.
As a
container, we made those big house shapes as interior, but when people actually
live there and use the space, the feeling of the interior switches between an
indoor space to an outdoor space.
It would
only be then that this idea of an interweaved living space would be expressed
and perceived.

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