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Boxy wooden rooms branch out from a crooked blue spine at this family house in Sayo, Japan, in our second story this week about the work of FujiwaraMuro Architects.

Simply titled House in Sayo, the single-storey residence is located beside a car park in a sparsely populated residential district.

FujiwaraMuro Architects planned the house around a meandering corridor, contained with the deep blue volume, and it swells in two places to accommodate a living room in the middle and a dining room at the end.

“A narrow space threads through the center of this house, expanding and shrinking, curving and meandering,” explain architects Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro. “This part of the house morphs and transforms to become a space for relaxation, study, reading or tea time.”

Timber-clad rooms protrude outwards along the sides. One functions as the entrance, while the others contain bedrooms, bathrooms, a kitchen and a traditional Japanese room.

A seating area is located within the recess cerated by one of the boxes and a small terrace is slotted between two boxes on the south side of the building.

Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro founded FujiwaraMuro Architects in 2002. Past projects include a house with a corridor coiling around its floors and the recently completed House in Muko, which features a facade of huge vertical louvres.

See more Japanese houses on Dezeen, including a converted warehouse with rooms contained inside a white box.

Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.

Here is a few words from FujiwaraMuro Architects:

House in Sayo

A narrow space threads through the center of this house, expanding and shrinking, curving and meandering. This part of the house morphs and transforms to become a space for relaxation, study, reading, or teatime.

We built a small room in the middle of this space. As the width of these branches changes, the purpose of this room, along with its relationship with the surrounding space, transforms along with it.

Location: Sayo, Hyogo, Japan
Principle use: single family house
Site area: 262.53 sqm
Building area: 82.78 sqm
Total floor area: 81.26 sam
Project architect: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Project team: fujiwarramuro architects
Structure: timber

Above: floor plan – click for larger image

Above: cross section

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A sloping corridor coils around the inside of a house in Osaka to connect three staggered storeys.

The house was designed by Japanese studio Fujiwarramuro Architects and is located in a dense urban area.

Timber columns and criss-crossing metal braces support both the stepped and sloped floors.

The 25 metre-long ramp leads past clusters of rooms for each family member to a rooftop balcony with a skylight.

Another Japanese house previously featured on Dezeen is surrounded by staircases and slides, rather than ramps – see the story here and see all our stories about houses in Japan here.

Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.

Here are some more details from the architects:

House of Slope

This residential project is built on a flag-shaped site in Osaka surrounded by densely packed buildings.

Even when faced with these challenging site conditions, we felt that it would be possible to come up with an interesting design solution based on a structure that appears to “float” in a large, open space.

By ensuring a continuous sense of spatial circulation through the flag-shaped portion of the site, the inhabitants of the house are able to “drift” through their favorite spaces like goldfish in a bowl.

The sloping structure that extends from the first floor through the second and up until the roof – covering a length of some 25 meters over approximately one-and-a-half revolutions – allows the family members to distribute themselves across its entire length, each occupying a different section of the building.

Several beams offer structural support for the wooden slope and spiral-shaped floors of the building, creating a residential space made up of ambiguously demarcated domains that are staggered apart yet also integrated with each other, thereby achieving a sense of breadth and openness.

Location: Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Principle use: single family house
Site area: 103.91 m2
Building area: 52.17 m2
Total floor area: 107.49 m2

Project architect: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Project team: Fujiwarramuro Architects
Structure: Timber
Photographer: Toshiyuki Yano

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