Sumit Singhal 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.
Unou Residence in Toyota Aichi Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki
September 8th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Katsutoshi Sasaki
Site
As the surrounding of a site, a residence stands in a row in the north-and-south side, and the east-and-west side is a place where a comparatively good field of view.
Structure company : Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio
Construction company: Toyonaka construction Ltd
Photo: Katsutoshi Sasaki Associates
Image Courtesy Katsutoshi Sasaki
Spread of interior space
For this site which has good view, we put two “frames” One is vertical frame at east. The other is horizontal frame at west. The space consists of connecting the two frames. It’s a space horizontally opened while reducing height gradually and a space vertically opened while reducing a plan gradually. The “one room” is expanding vertically and horizontally.
Image Courtesy Katsutoshi Sasaki
One room
I have an idea that the residence should be a one room. However, the monotonous one room which can see the whole feels in many cases that there are few choices of an air and a life. So we have made “one room” which can connect family without seeing directly. This time, We proposed preparing “the boundary of air” connecting good fields of view in the east-and-west and gaining depth and density to the space.
Image Courtesy Katsutoshi Sasaki
The boundary of air
Concretely, we use wooden frame which use auxiliary as window or door frame. We think wooden frame itself takes a part of specifying space boundary. It is distinguished as somewhere else at the same time the space before and behind that is connected because there is a wooden frame. It is constituted as space with moderate tolerance.
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