House in
Chikuzen
The site is a house built in
the suburbs that offer the view of Yasu-Kogen and Mt. Ohira distantly
northward. The owner only expected the space for future children and two young
couples to live and gave us the opportunity of a design freely. When we visited the
site, we were not able to feel an outstanding aspect except that open-
northward scenery. In addition, the design started in the situation that I could
not find the cozy space easily in the site while the site area is spacious
600sqm. During the schematic planning, we located the necessary functions in a
slim rectangular plan and categorized entire space as the public and private
space then we came up with three boxes such as the public and private spaces
and the intermediate space to tie those places.
we assumed the intermediate
space as a kitchen, and we played to displace two boxes mutually around
centrally-located kitchen, and created the opening where it was necessary in
the place that the connection with outside and located the place that wanted to
keep privacy from the outside in the place where it was in the blind area from
the outside. As a result, we reached at the simple constitution that two lines
of rectangles (two boxes) were located in the kitchen as the point of contact.
In addition, I chose the gabled roof to be able to recognize from the outside
that the two boxes were built by the relation that created the gap.
Due to the space of recognizable
two L-shapes that came up by the two buildings slip off, the appropriate
outside place was born in the site that seems too wide compared with a building
area. We think that a feeling to have new place to stay may have come by
becoming a person to be target to feel a scale.