Article source: Takeru Shoji Architects.Co.,Ltd.

Hara house is located in the agricultural village of Tsurugasone, formerly known as Nakanoshima, in Nagaoka city, Niigata prefecture. The village is in the conventional Japanese village style wherein, a single estate contains an assemblage of buildings and farmland, that are inter-dependent on each other. This village is facing the same problems that many of Japan’s villages are facing; a rural decline, where new self-contained buildings superimpose themselves onto the land and create a larger and larger separation between the residents.

Eventually, the clients will inherit their large family estate which similarly, already has many built structure upon it such as the main family house, a work shed, parking area and a green house. Thus in this setting, our design direction was to create a building that revitalizes the structures already present onsite and have the potential to adapt to new functions as the need or mood arises.

Image Courtesy © Isamu Murai

• Architects: Takeru Shoji Architects.Co.,Ltd.
• Project: Hara house
• Location: Nagaoka, Japan
• Photography: Isamu Murai
• Software used: Vectorworks
  
• Project Architect: Takayuki Shimada(Takeru Shoji Architects.）
• Structural Design: Tetsuya Tanaka(Tetsuya Tanaka Structural Engineers)
• Contractor: Hirokatsu Yokoo(Yoshihara Gumi)
• Total Floor Area: 166.24 sqm(including carport)
• Completion: Feb.2019

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