Le collectif numen/for use invente d’énormes sculptures interactives, permettant ainsi au public de vivre de réelles expériences. La preuve en est avec Net Blow-Up, ce filet géant installé au bord de mer à Yokohama au Japon sur la terrasse Zou-na-hanna. Une construction intéressante photographiée par Tomohisa Tasho.
This wooden house in Yokohama by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office has a garden behind its walls and a roof terrace beneath a ceiling.
After entering though the front door, residents must first cross a pebbled courtyard filled with plants to access the rooms of the three-storey house.
One staircase leads down to bedrooms on the sunken ground floor, while another leads up a first-floor living room.
The terrace and a bathroom occupy the second floor above, separated from one another by nothing but glazing.
Suppose Design Office have designed quite a few interesting houses – see more of their projects here.
Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.
Here’s a little more information from the architects:
House in Seya
We have all ways have been interested in Nature.
Nature that expresses time and change are some aspects that we try to incorporate in Architecture.
Everybody feels and knows that the sky, sea, and forest are big but why does everyone feel this way? Would it be that when a person feels lost in the scale of things they start to feel that the thing is big.
Scale is something important in architecture. That it why always think of size and height. If nature and architecture were to be the same and to have a close relationship with each other then when the scale is taken away from architecture or scale is added to nature then there might be a new relation ship created between architecture and nature.
The house in Seya is on a small site located in a residential area. The client works in a flower shop and wanted a house that looks in harmony with flowers and vegetations.
It is the norm to erect walls to enclose a space for a building but for the house in Seya we decided to enclose the outer space. This resulted in the creation of a space where it is neither a garden nor a room.
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The outer shell was built like a wooden storage and once the residence moved in to the space, by time there will be an increase in plants, book shelves or painting in the space will have the same quality as what nature where everything is in a state where it is neither finished nor unfinished.
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It was important that the client accepted that this architecture was in the process of change and that it came from the idea of adding scale to Nature, which resulted in the nature become closer to architecture and an architecture closer to nature.
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Rather then creating architecture that is completed but to create an architecture that is unfinished which lead to the creation of a new relationship between the internal and external spaces.
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The creation of this uncompleted space gives the space the quality to accept any kind of elements to be placed and give true strength to the versatility of the space. The uncompleted state can produce a rich space and we would like to continue to think about thee kind of space.
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Location: Seya,Yokohama,Kanagawa,Japan
Principal use: single family house
Structural Engineer: Ohno Japan
Main Structure: Timber construction ( subset of structure is Concrete )
Site Area: 73.22 sqm
Building area: 36.09sqm
Total floor area: 57.03sqm
Completion : April. 2011
Design period: August. 2009 – September. 2011
Construction period: February. 2010-February. 2011
Project team: Suppose design office | Makoto Tanijiri, in charge: Ai Yoshida
Readers have been discussing “the abundance of introverted architecture that is coming out of Japan” recently, so here’s another Japanese house that blocks all views to and from the street but still draws light and air inside.
The single-storey house by Satoshi Kurosaki and APOLLO Architects is located in a residential neighborhood in Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama.
A wall behind the public approach allows for only a glimpse of the private courtyard within.
The windowless perimeter wall and a winding alley from the entrance give privacy to its single resident by leading visitors around the back of the living space.
Black floating steps creep up the courtyard wall to a terrace.
Large glass doors allow in light from the main courtyard and can be slid open to extend the living area.
Like boxes within a box, the living space and bedroom sit as separate elements within the perimeter wall but remain connected to the two courtyards and each other.
Photography is by Masao Nishikawa.
We’ve published a number of stories by APOLLO Architects & Associates including a house that features a pointy overhang and another house with no exterior windows. See all our stories by Apollo Architects and Associates.»
Here’s some more information from the architects:
MUR
This one-storey residence for a single woman is located in a hilly area.
The client requested a house with an internal courtyard that would eliminate the differences in elevation throughout the site while ensuring a sense of privacy and comfort.
In response, we decided to model the facade after a simple box encircled by the walls of the building.
In order to prevent the interior from becoming just a simple one-room space, we considered each of the necessary components to be a “story.”
Opening the door reveals a partial glimpse of the private courtyard that extends beyond the slender window in front of you.
A glass entrance door stands at one end of the long, narrow porch, while the skylight at the top fills the interior with a soft, gentle light.
The house is laid out in such a way that you can bypass and go around the long, narrow alley to arrive at the main living area.
In contrast with the dimensions of the alley, this voluminous space can also be integrated with the internal courtyard when the large sliding door is opened.
The bedroom, a small breakaway space that lines up with the large central portion of the building while being detached from it, also connects to the backyard, which is itself linked to the dressing room.
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All of these living spaces were designed to invariably face the exterior while also ensuring a certain level of privacy.
Two different spaces and two gardens, laid out with a slight lateral deviation between them: a complex, nuanced interior was created just using a series of simple manipulations.
In contrast to the simple facade that resists being influenced by the exterior environment, a unique, individual and complex worldview takes shape within the interior of the house.
The manifold surprises that emerge from this process are precisely the essence of the “narrative” that we tried to create – the key to coaxing fresh perspectives out of both everyday and extraordinary life experiences.
Architecture: Satoshi Kurosaki/APOLLO Architects & Associates
Project Outline
Location: Hodogaya Yokohama Kanagawa
Date of Completion: Summer 2011
Principal use: private house
Structure: wood
Site area: 276.64m2
Total floor area: 80.39m2 (80.39m2/1F)
Structural engineer: Kenta Masaki
Mechanical engineer:Zennei Shimada
Material information
Exterior finish: acrylic emerson paint
Floor: solid flooring;Tiled/1F
Wall: plaster
Ceiling: plaster
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