The design is intended to create a living space that meets the needs of changing lifestyles due to the residents’ generational change, pass on the memories of a shared family home, and provide a second living space with the dispersed nuclear family.
People change their homes when they retire from work or finish raising their children. Still, the transition of generations from parents to children or grandchildren are inevitable in any family. We positioned “how to pass on attachment and foster it for future generations” as a theme of succession for homes and families today.
Therefore, we considered how to continue to live in a Japanese house, focusing on two points: preserving the existing space with attachment and how the family can nurture attachment in the future.
As a method of continuing to live in the house, the details of a traditional Japanese house, such as the Ranma, Nageshi, and nuki-ana, are preserved, and the floor plan of the old house is preserved above the eye level. In contrast, the house is renovated into a free-form plan. At the same time, brass, which changes over time, was used to connect new and old wooden elements, visibly marking the new memories of the house.
The guest room, which was used only for guests in the old house, is now a large room with an emphasis on the family. The space, which was divided into “hare (special moment)” and “ke (ordinary everyday life),” is now connected to the family room.
On the other hand, modules are aligned to ensure the house’s longevity, and relocatable shoji screens easily separate the Hare and Ke spaces, creating a variable space that can flexibly accommodate lifestyle changes.