DESIGN NAME: House Passage of Landscape
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Residential House
INSPIRATION: Tanada, terraced paddy field, widely appears to its south and the west.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: 3 gate-shaped frames which compose wall, floor and ceiling are layered in tiers by 650mm for each direction. On the first floor, living room, wood deck and garden form straight line toward the slope of rice fields from north side. The first floor also connects to the dining room etc on the second floor, through the gap of the frame from south side. In the second floor, the gaps of the frame of the ceiling become high side windows for ventilation and lighting.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: This house become a passage of landscape which can feel difference of light, wind, sound and width of the sky depending on the space and the inside and outside continue to the scenery.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Design: May 2012 to September 2013
Construction: November 2013 to September 2014
Location: Toyota, Aichi, Japan
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Firstly, I am going to explain exterior materials.
The roof is FRP.
The wall has three parts.
Cedar board paneling and Fiber reinforced cement board for gate-shaped frames, and Mortar for boxes.
Regarding Interior, Main floor material is Oak Flooring. It is a component of frames.
And, wall and ceiling are component of frames, too.
They are Basswood plywood and Gypsum board panelling.
Panel lines continue from living room to deck, so, your eyes can move to the outside smoothly.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Site area 243.11sqm
Building area 62.11sqm
Building scale 2 storeys
Total floor area 99.0 sqm
1f 50.91sqm 2f 48.02sqm
TAGS: House Passage of Landscape, Japanese house, Japanese Architecture, ihrmk, Masaki Ihara, gate-shaped frame, Tanada
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: This house locates within Urbanization control areas, and around of this house is the Area for promoting a local agriculture, designated by government.
Thanks to this, beautiful view, and peaceful time there, are guaranteed.
So, this small, one hundred square meter house, could receive surrounding landscape.
CHALLENGE: This Gate-shaped frames made from timber has large span, so we designed steel reinforcing material to realizing a large span beam.
In order to get durability enhancement in second floor windows, wooden door was coated with FRP waterproofing material.
ADDED DATE: 2015-02-21 02:55:58
TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Architect: Masaki Ihara, Structural engineering: Atsushi Fujio, Garden designer: Ryo Tabata and Furniture designer: Hideaki Suzuki
IMAGE CREDITS: Main Image and Image #1-4: Photographer Hiroshi Ueda, 2014.
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