SRK

Meguro, Japan

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Shell House

SRK

Meguro, Japan

Firm

Artechnic

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2014

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

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Nacasa & Partners inc. (26)

By expanding and adjusting the existing land condition and nature within, I have attempted to
create a space which provides dwelling as like a part of the nature.
The shape has been finalized rationally and organically in the forming process of dealing with
the site condition and requested function. Not only the result of the form being organic, by
paying attention to the organic matter of the planning process, the process itself perhaps
produced the organic space.
There was a 3.7m height difference and were a lot of tall trees left at the top of the hill by
the boundary of the site. Since the earth retaining wall has been required for utilizing these
trees to create the view from the upper floor, not only the wall has been taken an advantage of
becoming as a part of the architecture, it even has been made to grow to form the external shell.
The earth retaining wall of the lower floor has been raised in the form of a spiral shape and
wrapped around the building, involving the exterior space as an external shell of the upper
floor. The entire exterior wall of this house was formed by this external shell. The upper floor
surrounded by this wall and tall trees was cut by glassed windows to separate from the exterior,
creating an atmosphere of dwelling directly in a rocky mountain. The functional requirement as a
house was satisfied by furniture.
The exterior wall, leaning toward outside creates an effect of reducing the spacial pressure,
leads natural sunlight and also reflects it into interior space. I was able to meet the client’s
expectation “shutting off the view from neighbor, but obtaining the feeling of open space”
I treated the wall as a man made nature, fulfilled the function by furniture and blocked the air
by glass for human to reside in. It is the origin of Japanese architecture for furniture and
windows to collateral the performance as a house, though I aimed to obtain a sense of European
strength which provides living by furniture in remain and stones structures.
In addition, the house holds a complexed spatial composition, though it creates a reasonable and
comfortable thermal environment by external wall insulation and underfloor heating/cooling
system.

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SRK

Meguro, Japan

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Shell House

SRK

Meguro, Japan

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