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Villa Cocoro
Villa Cocoro
Shizuoka, Japan
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Villa Cocoro
Shizuoka, Japan
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Villa Cocoro is the only villa standing on a hill top of 5,000sqm private garden in the middle of nowhere. It was originally an old farm house which was relocated from elsewhere and reassembled incompletely.
To convert the farm house skeleton into the new villa, six distinctive areas were chosen from among the existing frameworks first, then being recharacterized by contrastive but correlative design elements, materials, and finishes. All the areas are linked with each other to provide the programmed sequence and story for guests.
This project also deals with how to coexist with old stocks that would otherwise be abolished. However, to keep traditional style as formal conservation or restoration of heritage is not the subject of this project. While the traditional frames are left as they were as much as possible, simple new or contemporary elements with the deliberate texture and color of the finishes softens the contrast between old and new. The obscuring of the borders between past, present and even future without replicating traditional styles results in a building that exists continuously in the present tense.
Photo credit: Jimmy Cohrssen, Kentaro Kimizuka
To convert the farm house skeleton into the new villa, six distinctive areas were chosen from among the existing frameworks first, then being recharacterized by contrastive but correlative design elements, materials, and finishes. All the areas are linked with each other to provide the programmed sequence and story for guests.
This project also deals with how to coexist with old stocks that would otherwise be abolished. However, to keep traditional style as formal conservation or restoration of heritage is not the subject of this project. While the traditional frames are left as they were as much as possible, simple new or contemporary elements with the deliberate texture and color of the finishes softens the contrast between old and new. The obscuring of the borders between past, present and even future without replicating traditional styles results in a building that exists continuously in the present tense.
Photo credit: Jimmy Cohrssen, Kentaro Kimizuka
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