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An asymmetric tunnel leads through an all-black facade to a bright and spacious interior at this house in Chiba Prefecture, Japan (+ slideshow).

Designed by Tokyo studio Sugawaradaisuke, Kiritoshi House provides the home for a family of four on the rural perimeter of a residential district in Oamishirasato.

While the black-painted front elevation presents a blank face to the street, the rear features a glazed wall that opens the house out to the neighbouring fields.

“The client’s goal was to link the interior of the house with the scenery outside, letting the family live intimately with the surrounding environment,” said architect Daisuke Sugawara.

The interior spaces are arranged to complement this arrangement, with bedrooms grouped together at the front of the house and an open-plan living room and kitchen leading out to a terrace at the rear.

“The building provides an expansive view that allows the natural sunlight and fresh air in the house,” added Sugawara.

A wooden panelled floor runs through the house and is mirrored by a matching ceiling in the living room. Walls between are painted white and feature a series of triangular openings and facets.

Sugawaradaisuke previously completed two studio apartments divided by central twisting forms in a Tokyo apartment block.

Other recently completed Japanese residences include a house shaped like a squashed diamond and a shared occupancy house in Nagoya. See more architecture in Japan »

Photography is by Takumi Ota.

Here’s more information from Sugawaradaisuke:

Kiritoshi House

This house is designed for a married couple with two children, and is located in Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture. The building provides an expansive view that allows the natural sunlight and fresh air in the house, so that the residents enjoy the life in the green ambience.

The building sits on the borderline between the new residential area and the pastoral fields. The client’s goal was to link the interior of the house with the scenery outside, letting the family live intimately with the surrounding environment. The exterior is finished as a simple box, allowing the residence to blend in easily with the rest of the surroundings.

The interior spaces are constructed according to the three-dimensional cellular structure, and in the middle is the largest space for the family members to gather. This maximises the physically sensed largeness and at the same time, each room’s storage capacity.

The relativeness of the scenery, space and body changes dramatically by moving from each space to space. The physical perception experienced in this house is like that in an excavation (=”Kiritoushi”) – the fusion of both natural and artificial dimensions.

Project name: Kiritoshi House
Location: Oamishirasato city, Chiba Pref
Concept design: Sugawaradaisuke
Schematic Design: Sugawaradaisuke
Design Development: Sugawaradaisuke + Osato Sogokanri
Construction: Osato Sogokanri

Principal use: residence
Structure: wooden structure
Site area: 228.72 sqm
Building area: 103.98 sqm
Floor area: 91.89 sqm
Number of stories: 1

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L’agence publicitaire CHI & Partners réalise une série de prints pour l’association The Prince’s Trust à l’occasion des résultats du GCSE. La note, le F, la plus basse est transformée en perspective de carrière dans la finance, le design ou l’ingénierie. Une belle campagne pleine d’espoir et graphiquement très réussie.

Some months ago I was sent a 321 Water bottle with a note from one of YD’s staff – “this was in the Hunger Games movie!” And it’s true. The bottle was featured in the control room scene of said movie so I thought hey, if it’s good enough for those dystopian dictators with amazing fashion sense, then it’s good enough for me. Hit the jump for the review.

The 321 Water bottle has two unique things working for it – both are design related. One – the bottle design itself looks other worldly. Founder and designer Gretha Oost hit the nail on the head when she created an object that makes people scratch their heads and ask “what is it?” That happened on many occasions as passersby peeked into my office after catching a glimpse of this 9″ tall bottle that almost optically glows blue when filled with water. “It’s a water bottle with a built-in filter” I would answer.

How does it work? Here’s the second unique thing. Think of a coffee press. You fill the bottle with tap water, then slowly press the filtering stem down into the water. It’s a tight fit but any resistance is key to understanding that questionable tap water is being forced through the hydropal activated carbon impregnated polymer filter. The result is tasteless and odorless filtered tap water that all but took 20 seconds to fill and filter – not to mention how utterly cool it looks.

Although there are other filtering water bottles on the market, this is the first one I’ve seen where you proactively filter the water first before drinking it (not including water jugs). Most others filter as you drink. I’m not saying one is better than the other but if you prefer to drink normally as opposed to sucking the water through a filter, then you’ll want the 321 Water bottle.

The bottle itself is made from BPA free plastic and holds 17 oz of water. It comes with one filtering tablet that’ll last you 100 refills. So if you’re drinking the recommended amount of water per day, you’re probably going to need two filtering tablets per month. The tablets come in packs of six at $40 USD. That comes out to about $6.67 per tablet which breaks down to each bottle of water costing you $0.06.

Would I recommend it? Yes. Aside from the costs, the design more than delivered on its promise. It was hard to remember when 100 refills were up but the general rule is to change the tablet every 2.5 weeks. Water always tasted great and 6 months later, people still ask me about the design. Overall it’s more than enough to justify the initial $35 USD investment. It’s extremely easy to clean and in case you’re wondering, fits perfectly in cup holders. Go get you one!

Designer: Gretha Oost, Buy it here

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