Article source: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Cutting resort environment out of urban environment

Nowhere resort is the resort program that is renting out weekly vacation house. Suggesting new urban life style by making shorten the distance to weekend house from standard 3 hours up to 1 hour. The environment must get close to urban when shorten the distance, the issue comes to how to cut off resort environment out of there. Therefore Nowhere but Sajima comes to build long and thin tube-like spaces that bundle them into one home unit. The tube-like spaces are facing toward the ocean and at the same time intercept the sight from the next condominium. The building is controlling both privacy and scenery.

Images Courtesy Yasutaka Yoshimura

• Architect: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
• Name of Project: Nowhere but Sajima
• Location: Yokosuka Kanagawa, Japan
• Principal Use: House
• Completion: Jun/2010
• Photographer: Yasutaka Yoshimura and Chiaki Yasukawa

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