The building consists of four enclosed spaces, including inside and outside, and the space created in those gaps.There is a wall in the enclosed spacesfour laps.Wecan not see the inside of the enclosed spacesfrom the outdoors.
Inside the enclosed space there are indoor space and outside space of the garden.
Chiryu city in Aichi Prefecture was the 39th of the Fifty-three post-towns of Tokaido.
The site is along the old Tokaido Street where Honjin (officially appointed inn) was once positioned. It is fair to say that it is the center of the town in terms of local history. Based on such historical importance, a Chiryu-based global robot manufacturing company decided to purchase this ownerless land and make a facility for regional contribution.
When thinking about “window”, I thought that “cross section” of “window” had infinite possibility, decided to consider again from the composition of the window. The window can be seen as observing that the physical role is a determinant of its composition, but the “window” which is the boundary between the inside (architectural space) and the outside (earth space) is taken as “section” Looking at “cross section” with a microscope and gazing at it, you can find a lot of “whereabouts” like “edge side” there. There is an important role that connects the inside (architectural space) and the outside (the earth space), and at the same time, the place where the neighboring side has an important place to connect “people and architecture” “people and the earth” and “people and people”.
Nest at Amami Beach Villas —-In-between the Sky and the Sea
This resort complex is located in TEKUTO’s architect Yasuhiro Yamashita’s birthplace of Amami Oshima, a subtropical island halfway between Okinawa and the southern tip of Kyushu (the most southwestern island of the four main islands of Japan.)
Located in an alleyway off a shopping street, this property is closely bounded on the east by a road and on the south by a three-story apartment building. The building contains two independent residences—one for a mother and the other for her son and his family—which were designed with the possibility in mind of eventually turning them into rental units.
This is a renovation project of a house into two-family house.
Making the best use of the existing houses is the one of the most valuable solutions for sustainability in the world. Regenerating architectures leads to expanding the histories and environments of the cities and contributes to the cultures and diversities.
This house planned along the prefectural road at the foot of the mountain began with the consultation that a friend’s client is planning housing in his hometown. Being a quiet property except that there is a prefectural road on the north side, I tried to design such that I could obediently enjoy the grace of the land without any obstructing sunshine. We incorporated rich natural light as direct light and indirect light into architecture and planned the light sequence mainly around LDK. In the morning, when a crowd waking up in each private room on the second floor crosses the study, it awakens the body while experiencing the indirect light of the colonnade part.
Both the name of the room (function) and the cenesthesia (volume) affect residential architectures. Some are rational but leave the space and living in the rigid and inconvenient relationship. I would like to create the place where the sense of embracement and the laid-back breadth provided by the scale can coexist. For this plan, I decomposed the length, breadth and height that make up three-dimensional shapes, and designed the “width” of the room from the human perspective to give the embracing comfort, and the “length and height” from the landscape perspective in light of the streetscape and the premise. I used 1.55m as the smallest common denominator and the effective dimension for the width of rooms after the numerous simulation of housing lives. Two cubic capacities of 1.55m in width, 13.5m in depth and 8m in height sit next to each other over the T-shaped structure with the joint pillar/beam. Simultaneously feeling the close proximity the small width gives and the sense of sharing the same space even when the dwellers actually are in separate rooms. The scale of the place indefinitely expanding and contracting to accommodate the movement of people and their feeling of distance. The richness brought in the rationality by the unrestricted movement of people, light and wind inside the reiterating structure. The new scale has brought about the new freedom that can be taken two ways. The rooms on the upper floor are laid out in a spiral manner along the staircase, each at slightly shifted positions. As the rooms are narrow, the floor does not need the beam and is supported by 50mm boards. And the upper and lower floors are loosely connected by that. While I used the Japanese standard of 910mm module when spacing the pillars, I also used the new scale of 55mm in width and 700mm in depth for the structure to create the new living experience in the traditional dimensional system. The natural light coming in from the gap at the top of the structure reflects several times to embrace the inside with the soft ambience on some occasions, and the morning or evening sun shine in sharply on other occasions. The main structure supports the “scenery created by the natural light and the scale”.
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