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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Une Longue Salle de Séjour in Chatou, France by kotaro horiuchi architectureJanuary 20th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Kotaro horiuchi architecture The site is located in Chatou, 14,4 km west of Paris, FRANCE. Around this area is known as a quiet residential area of the riverbank of the lower stream in the Seine. This house is two-household house of couple households (one child + couple) which live the life without shoes and their parents households which live the life of shoes.
The minimum residence functions fit in one long-slender living, and it bends according to the form of the site. It corresponds to the changing family structure while living is occasionally divided and it occasionally becomes one space. Each feels sense of family while each room takes distance, a daily life is led considering single elongated living as a base of life space.
An elongated living is loose ramp length 50 m, and distinguishes indoor shoes and shoes. Unless access of each room passes along this living, it is unmovable. It lives by always walking along this living. If you walk along living, distance with families, parents, children, and neighborhood will be adjusted because space spreading, narrowing and carries out strength. Moreover, the shadow of facade given change to interior space, and the scene from interior space also brings about change. The central portion of living is separable, it can use also as concert hall for a wife, home party, theater hole of husband’s hobby, rental housing and guest houses, gallery, and musicology student’s lodgings. Kotaro horiuchi architecture Kotaro HORIUCHI was born in 1978 in Nagoya AICHI, JAPAN. He received a master degree in urbanism and architecture from graduate school of university,Tokyo JAPAN. In 2009 he established his own Paris-based practice, Tokyo and Nagoya practices, after gaining experience through world renowned architecture firms such as: DPA – Dominique Perrault Architecture (Paris, France), MecanooArchitecten (Delft, The Netherlands), and PPAG – PopelkaPoduschkaArchitekten (Vienna, Austria) from 2003 to 2009. Kotaro HORIUCHI’s architectural design firm – Kotaro Horiuchi Architecture- is headquartered in Nagoya AICHI, JAPAN, works on multiple projects of architecture, urban design and interior design around the world. He won Silver Award of JCD Design Award 2011.
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