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Katsutadai House
Katsutadai House
Chiba, Japan
Project of the Day on May 31, 2014
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Katsutadai House
Chiba, Japan
Project of the Day on May 31, 2014
Type
YEAR
2013
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
This dwelling includes a shop and is located at Katsutadai, Chiba prefecture, Japan. The outer part of the first floor is a patisserie and the inner part is for cuisine; the second and third floors are the residence of a family of four. The house has an aerial wedge in between the first and third floor, so that from the street the upper part of the dwelling looks like it is floating above the patisserie. This aerial wedge changes its character as a photic layer at different times - during the daytime it will be a lightwell for the patisserie, and in the nighttime the light leaking from this aperture appears like an open treasure box. The wall of the shop along the street is planed to six feet in height and gradually becomes higher toward the inside, based on the intention to create a familiar open space like an empty lot that is only surrounded by a low wall.
This house has a dual relationship between a shop and a floating residence, each with a different independent existence in a single building simultaneously. Each space has a particular sense of distance to the surrounding environment. The shop space is a kind of continuous exterior with the streetscape, which is only surrounded by a low wall. And the residential space is more separate from the surroundings, floating above the street with non-openings along the street, so that dwellers cannot see other houses directly and vice versa. Additionally, a kind of wind-path was placed in the residence that brings the wind and sounds from the outside in, so that dwellers can feel the atmosphere of the street. When visiting their previous house for the first time (the first floor was a shop and second floor was a dwelling), a curtain was closed due to concerns about privacy, and they were also troubled by hearing upstairs noise in the patisserie. A solution to those problems was addressed in the schematic design.
The approach created an attractive appearance with a long length to change the mood between a shop and a dwelling. The intent was to change a sense of distance to the surroundings through the situations — such as high public patisserie space and a more independent dwelling space, and those senses of distance change the flow of time between the spaces in their life.
Photography by Daici Ano
This house has a dual relationship between a shop and a floating residence, each with a different independent existence in a single building simultaneously. Each space has a particular sense of distance to the surrounding environment. The shop space is a kind of continuous exterior with the streetscape, which is only surrounded by a low wall. And the residential space is more separate from the surroundings, floating above the street with non-openings along the street, so that dwellers cannot see other houses directly and vice versa. Additionally, a kind of wind-path was placed in the residence that brings the wind and sounds from the outside in, so that dwellers can feel the atmosphere of the street. When visiting their previous house for the first time (the first floor was a shop and second floor was a dwelling), a curtain was closed due to concerns about privacy, and they were also troubled by hearing upstairs noise in the patisserie. A solution to those problems was addressed in the schematic design.
The approach created an attractive appearance with a long length to change the mood between a shop and a dwelling. The intent was to change a sense of distance to the surroundings through the situations — such as high public patisserie space and a more independent dwelling space, and those senses of distance change the flow of time between the spaces in their life.
Photography by Daici Ano
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