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Other Projects by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
M3/KG
Type
YEAR
2006
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
This is a house to be built in Tokyo, for a movie producer couple.
This
architecture is consisted by combining L-shaped blocks of reinforced concrete
and sequential frames of box-shaped engineer-wood. We put bedrooms, film
archive and galley in solid concrete part for security, and living room in
engineer-wood part for openness. As material that consist an open space that is
6m in height, 5.5m in width, 14m in depth, we choose thin engineer-wood
(38mmx287mm).
Main theme for this architecture is to bring out a sense
of mass and material, which were denied by modern architecture which pursued
"white, flat wall" as a style. We intentionally left the wood grain
of mold on the surface of concrete, and choose textured stones and irons.
It goes
without saying that a house is a relaxing place. A house like a white-cube,
surrounded by flat, white walls everywhere, gives a person very abstract image.
But that image could only be sensed when we use intellective part of our brain.
The problem is that we're not all-intellective-creature. For the people like
this client, who do enough intellectual labor on a daily basis, white-cube
would only bring sense of fatigue. The role of architecture, especially the
ones for living, is to soothe the sensory side of people, not to stimulate the
intellectual side. That's my take.
Sure,
intellectual living would have got some meaning as a fashion at the time when
modern architecture was born. However, now that it became a part of everyday
life, its identity has been lost. We have to examine whether our approach is
rational or not every time we build architecture.
This
architecture is consisted by combining L-shaped blocks of reinforced concrete
and sequential frames of box-shaped engineer-wood. We put bedrooms, film
archive and galley in solid concrete part for security, and living room in
engineer-wood part for openness. As material that consist an open space that is
6m in height, 5.5m in width, 14m in depth, we choose thin engineer-wood
(38mmx287mm).
Main theme for this architecture is to bring out a sense
of mass and material, which were denied by modern architecture which pursued
"white, flat wall" as a style. We intentionally left the wood grain
of mold on the surface of concrete, and choose textured stones and irons.
It goes
without saying that a house is a relaxing place. A house like a white-cube,
surrounded by flat, white walls everywhere, gives a person very abstract image.
But that image could only be sensed when we use intellective part of our brain.
The problem is that we're not all-intellective-creature. For the people like
this client, who do enough intellectual labor on a daily basis, white-cube
would only bring sense of fatigue. The role of architecture, especially the
ones for living, is to soothe the sensory side of people, not to stimulate the
intellectual side. That's my take.
Sure,
intellectual living would have got some meaning as a fashion at the time when
modern architecture was born. However, now that it became a part of everyday
life, its identity has been lost. We have to examine whether our approach is
rational or not every time we build architecture.
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