It is a house built in a mini development area in the hill of Kagoshima-shi. It is located at the tip of a cliff opened in the southwest direction and the neighboring south and west sides are lower by 1.5 stories lower so it is unlikely that future obstacles will be built up in the future. In order to amplify the splendor of the view, we decided to set up all the main rooms including the water on the second floor, which was lifted by two strong structural cores composed of wall pillars with the first floor as a pillow . The home-made area that has opened up a small mountain often carries out cut-out earthworks, and the site on which the donation road of the L-type premises hits the embankment part. Considering the L shape of the premises, the state of the supporting ground mentioned above, wind blowing, etc., we placed the “main house” open to the view in parallel to the road and away from the cliff. At the tip of the remaining cliff, we set up a “separation” for enjoying panoramic view, and made it a layout to approach by a bridge as a transition device to an extraordinary space.
Akune City where AM Kindergarten and Nursery is located is in northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture, and is a port town that has a beautiful coast line, which is as long as about 40 kilometers facing the East China Sea. The site is in spacious fallow, which is several hundred meters away from the coast line. In the area around the site that has been the fallow for a long time, there are tall trees producing an environment with full of nature surrounded by the trees.
It is a simple timbered house of 1 story built in Kagoshima,Japan.It has a long and slender plan in north and south so that a north and south long and slender site may be met. Space is arranged from south at the turn of a parking lot, the garden, living room, dinning room, a courtyard, and a bedroom. Since a long passage produced inevitably, all the places facing a passage were made into the closet, and attained the increase in efficiency of storage.
The resident did not rely on energy in South Kyushuof high temperature and humidity, and hoped for ecology life with the environment.
The wind of land is felt, rain water is saved, and it enjoys gardening. It is native life. The site is a residential quarter that extends on a Shirasu plateau near from the Kagoshima City downtown. I then thought native house (eco-house) with the soil (Shirasu) as the material that formed this plateau native by the made Shirasu block.
TSUKIAGE-AN is Japan’s traditional famous shop that process seafood called “Satsuma age”. (A deep fried fishcake).This shop locates in the center of Kagoshima-ken, Tenmonkan, which is a sightseeing spot where tourists from home and abroad gather.
A look at the front side of the façade. Symmetry-designed façade and the rhythmical in-store layout complement one another. : Image Courtesy Satoru Umetsu/ Nacasa&Partners
Tully’s Coffee remm Kagoshima is located on the first floor of the high-grade hotel built in the typical shopping quarter “Tenmonkan” in Kagoshima. Thus, Tully’s was required to upgrade the facilities from the comparable Tully’s shops and correspond to providing breakfasts to the hotel guests.
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