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Sumit Singhal
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.

Cosmic in Japan by UID architects

 
July 25th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: UID architects

Dwelling is to put oneself in an interactive environmental domain that surrounds humans and other living creatures. There unfold various activities to which living creatures engage themselves for survival. Further expansion of such domain will surely lead us to view the totality of environment as a dwelling as it stretches unsegmented from city to forest and sea and finally from the earth into outer space.

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

  • Architects: UID architects
  • Project: Cosmic
  • Location: Japan
  • Photography: Hiroshi Ueda
  • Site area: 2114.88㎡
  • Built area: 611.51㎡
  • Total floor area: 573.17㎡
  • Date of completion: April, 2014

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

The ever-changing ways of living things such as humans and plants, land topographies or climatic conditions all remind us that nothing in our would stays the same forever. My interest lies in the rich spatial domain in which one may perceive in the course of daily life such changes of nature that are the very heartbeats of the earth.

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

In this project the focus in on the relationship of border derived from mutual interaction with natural environment that surrounds this site sitting on a hill in site. Instead of gathering up a crowd of spaces within the topography or climate by making use of wall/roof elements, it rather involves a domain generated by screens like clouds that shield sunlight and moonlight.

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

In other words this infinitely expansive totality with no boundaries bases itself on the principles of architecture while it generates a certain domain within topological and climatic conditions. While wisps of clouds overlap in layers, exposure and depth of light penetrating through mountain peaks into the valley define the atmospheric void as a domain for a place of living.

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

These screens that flow from east to west not only work as eaves that shield direct sunlight during summer but also serve as constituents along with subtle light tones, sway in the wind, atmospheric condition, nature’s sounds and scents and physical sense of distance that highlight the diversity of spatial domains through the seasons. The state of the spot generated by screens becomes the place of living that paraphrases the topography through various actions, rather than being a space specialized in particular functions.

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

The architecture is like a village as it breaks free from borders defined by natural relationship , and is also like a mountain ridge with its layers of mountain peaks. With an ever transforming outline, it will continue to blur into the landscape.

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © Hiroshi Ueda

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

Image Courtesy © UID architects

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