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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. “House in hieidaira” in Shiga, Japan by Tato architectsOctober 30th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Tato architects Located in a rural part of Japan on the flank of Mount Hiei north of Kyoto, this house was designed for an artist who required a studio, living space as well as to accommodate his parents. The house has been designed as a collection of three independent but related structures that reference the local vernacular of predominantly small pitched roof cottages. It was thought that to try to accommodate all of the required programmatical functions in one structure would result in a too large building. Also there were concerns from the planning authority that activities in the studio may result in disturbance to neighbouring residents.  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta
 Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta The response was to design three independent forms, arranged in two separate buildings. At the front of the site, directly facing the street, the corrugated sheet metal-clad studio stands sentinel, protecting the black-clad residence behind. Due to the restricted budget, simple forms, materials and construction techniques were employed. The house is arranged over two levels with the ground floor accommodating a self contained apartment in a connected pavilion to the north.  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta The link between the apartment and the main house is a circulation space and shared bathroom. The ground floor of the main house contains an open plan living, dining and kitchen space as asa study. Upstairs, two bedrooms have been carved out beneath the pitched roof. As ordinary vertical walls would have made the loft spaces too cramped, the partition walls lean to divide the space diagonally, creating a ‘hill-likefloor’ complete with skylights in both the ceiling and the floor to create interior and exterior views into and out of the loft bedrooms. Thus it appears that a smaller cottage is living inside the larger one and as if the house is extending upwards further than it actually does. The interior features a polished concrete floor, white painted walls and ceiling to the lower floor and exposed lauan plywood to the upper floor.  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Yousuke Takeda  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Tato architects  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Yousuke Takeda  Image Courtesy © Yousuke Takeda  Image Courtesy © Yousuke Takeda  Image Courtesy © Tato architects  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Satoshi shigeta  Image Courtesy © Yousuke Takeda  Image Courtesy © Tato architects  Image Courtesy © Tato architects  Image Courtesy © Tato architects  Image Courtesy © Tato architects  Image Courtesy © Tato architects
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