Les architectes japonais de chez Future Studio ont pu réaliser récemment ce beau projet “Light Stage House”. Située à Hiroshima, cette structure au design tout en courbes et très lumineux est à découvrir en images dans la suite.
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The huge tiled roof that wraps around this Tokyo house integrates arched windows and openings for tree branches.
Designed by Japanese architects ON design, the house conceals two of its three storeys behind the overhanging roof, which also shelters a stretch of land around the building’s perimeter.
There are no windows on the low-ceilinged middle floor, as it is only used for storage.
The only bedroom is located on the ground level, while living rooms occupy the top floor.
ON design also more recently completed a house split into two halves – take a look here.
Photography is by Koichi Torimura.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
“House with Eaves and an Attic”
This is a house located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.
The characteristic of this area is the hilly landscape. The site is located on the top of the hill and half of the site is a cliff.
There were many trees remained untouched on the cliff.
The clients request was to remain the trees to take over the memory of the site and to take into consider the sites from the mid rise building closely packed at the base of the cliff.
So we decided to set the house on the flat part of the site which is approximately 4.5m×16m foot print. By building a big roof with almost the same inclination of the site we tried to control the sight. The space under the eaves protects the house from sights and lead ones eyes to the cliff.
Small trees are taken into the interior by the eave and tall trees go through the halls of the roof.
The inclining roof creates an attic like space on the second floor.
The window on the roof shuts out sights from outside but gives a view of the trees. In the middle floor we did not create any windows and made it into a large storage space.
The roof, which is like an extent of the cliff, gives uniqueness to the house.
Data
Site: Tokyo,Japan
Structure: Wood
Total floor: 2 floors
Site area: 182.25㎡
Building area: 58.18㎡
Total floor area: 84.84㎡
Architect: On design Partners
Osamu Nishida+Takanori Ineyama+Rie Yanai
Steel crossbeams divide the triple-height living room of this Tokyo townhouse into modular sections.
Designed by Japanese architects Junpei Nousaku, the small house in Shinjuku has a large set of windows stretched across its street-facing west elevation.
The roof pitches sharply away from this facade to create clerestory windows on the opposite wall that are a storey in height.
A kitchen, utilities room and bedroom are stacked up at the southern end of the house and overlook the living room like balconies.
Other recent houses we’ve published in Tokyo include one with a secret balcony and one with a seamless frosted facade. See all our stories about Tokyo by clicking here.
The text below is from Junpei Nousaku Architects:
We all want to create as wide and open a space as possible, even in a small house. However, city housing is often very closed to the city in Tokyo’s high-density districts.
In Tokyo, real estate has been fragmented by a rapidly increasing population density. 70 years from the end of World War 2, and the small houses were built crowded. Usually in such high-density districts, the small houses occupy the site maximum, and by stacking the floor vertically, in order to ensure the living area. But the internal space becomes divided by the stacked floors, resulting in the lower floor becoming darker than the upper floor.
In addition they tend to close by the wall because of the worry about the public gaze. It is cause by the building is not enough set back from the street. So in many cases, the ground floor is assigned to the entrance, vehicle parking and closed bathroom. That makes the residential districts feel like a lifeless, deserted place to someone on the street.
This problem is serious in Tokyo’s high-density districts. Therefore, I have put the main family space, on the ground floor, and made it an open atrium-like space connecting the ground to the roof directly without enclosing the space with the floor above, resulting in a feeling of internal space beyond the scale of the housing. On the other hand, the beams run over in that space to allow for future expansion of the floor to match the change of the occupants’ life style.
In addition by taking off the majority of the exterior walls, this house becomes look like the three-story house was peeled off the floor and the walls. From behind the large windows, the occupants can expect to see various aspects of the neighborhood such as developing plant life, high-rise buildings and the occasional passer-by who has stopped to gaze at this unique and strange house.
This space is not complete and not stable, rather than complete as the safe house. But I believe that direct involvement and clash with the city by this non-completion and unstable makes human life open to the city environment.
Slideshow: the cantilevered upper storeys of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shogo Iwata hover above a driveway.
Completed in 2010, the three-storey-high House in Senri contains a total of eight tiered floors, connected to one another by sets of four or five stairs at a time.
The uppermost floor is a roof terrace, which is tucked down behind a parapet wall at the top of the grey-rendered facade.
The entrance is located on the side of the building, sheltered by a cantilevered canopy.
You can see more cantilevered buildings here, including a hotel with a mirrored underside.
Photography is by Nagaishi Hidehiko.
Here’s a little more from Shogo Iwata:
House in Senri
This house is planned for a family, husband, wife and their son.
This small house has 8 levels of floor between entrance in the basement to the roof terrace in order to constitute every space not in concentrated way by big void but reciprocal relation of each space.
This arrangement makes the notion of floor ambiguous and the continuity of space compatible with the hierarchy of space.
In order to realize this spatial constitution with small gap we adopt steel structure.
We use visible steel frame in 40mmx125mm flat bar that allow us to make each space flow without gravity.
Project title: House in Senri
Location: Suita, Osaka, Japan
Architect: Shogo Iwata
Main use: Residence
Site area: 244.3㎡
Building area:83.78㎡
Total floor area: 156.50㎡
B 1st floor: 6.30㎡
1st floor: 79.20㎡
2nd floor: 71.00㎡
Building area: 83.78㎡
Structure: Steel
Date of completion: 2010/06
Coup de coeur pour Cogoo qui est le service proposant des vélos en partage au Japon. Ils ont eu l’idée de mettre au point une Turntable Rider Kit, faisant du vélo un véritable instrument de musique. Une idée très bien pensée à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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A steel screen zigzags in front of a shampoo area at this dimly lit beauty salon in Gifu, Japan, by architect Hiroyuki Miyake.
Paint applied to the surface of this two-millimetre-thick screen gives it a graduated surface that becomes more and more reflective nearer to the Japanese oak floor.
A missing fold at the centre of the zigzag provides an entrance.
Three chairs are positioned opposite in front of square mirrors, while a square window provides a view into a storage closet at the back.
See more stories about salons and spas in our dedicated category.
Photography is by Rikoh Adachi.
Here’s some more explanation from Hiroyuki Miyake:
Beauty salon TROOVE by Hiroyuki Miyake

This beauty salon is located in Gifu, Japan, and is designed by Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake.

This salon is run by the one stylist. In order that the stylist face each client thoroughly and create beauty. A sacred and pure atmosphere was emphasised by concise composition and light and darkness.
Stand lights [AKARI] were designed by ISAMU NOGUCHI in the 80s. They are also manufactured in Gifu, Japan.

The space constituted by concrete and the Japanese oak exists as a background with depth.

The partition divides a shampoo booth is inspired by japanese traditional folding screen. It is made from 2mm thick galvanised iron, and the lower part is reflecting the wooden floor by processed gradation paint. It stands like it floats.
Although the screen seems to be one apparently, in fact, there is a passage in the middle.
All openings of a wall are designed by the board material of 150-mm width a module.

Light and darkness emphasise the meaning of a place without explanation.

The font was designed by inserting the Chinese character means “ONE” in “TIMES font”.
After the Tohoku Earthquake in last year, we the Japanese have been reconsidering strongly about our country and ourselves as japanese. By the accident of nuclear power plants, power saving was obliged and many lighting of the town was turned off. Although we felt negatively about darkness at first, we noticed it was enough to live. Rather, former was too bright. Originally we the Japanese accepted shades, and while they live, they have discovered beauty and art. Because this condition, we gaze at Japanese traditional culture again and evolve it, open up a new era.
Slideshow: Japanese firm Schemata Architecture Office have perched a cabin on top of a small woodland cliff in Chiba, Japan.
Named Hanare, the wooden house has a structural steel frame that lifts it above the rocky surface of the ground below.
An industrial ladder leads up into the centre of the building, while an elevator creates a second entrance on the opposite side.
Rooms are arranged along an L-shaped plan, with a main bedroom at one end and a guest room at the other.
In the large space between, wireframe shelves line the lower walls and a curvy tablewraps around a chunky timber column.
A lattice of wooden eaves are exposed on the ceiling and extend beyond the glazed facade to create a shading canopy.
Another ladder inside the house lets residents climb up onto the roof and survey their surroundings.
Schemata Architecture Office also recently completed a shop for skincare brand Aesop, which you can see here alongside some of their other projects.
Photography is by Takumi Ota.
Here’s a little more information from the architects:
This “HANARE” is a annex house in Chiba for the client living in Tokyo to use 2-3 times in a week.
The client bought whole mountain, and we architects dealt with putting the electricity (line), getting drinking water with a fountain, putting a bridge over the irrigation canal, and interior design and architecture, and also construction work.
The site is located in Chiba near sea side, although it is chosen in a mountain on very steep hill on the west and the south side away from 21m hight from a road on a small mountain side.
And the house with the landscape looks like a castle on a hill after all.
About the environment of a house it is that man-made energy to avoid normally in these days, but we use it intentionally and also making an ecological environment using such as 2m long eaves for shading from the west sun though the seasons, Low-E Glass and wooden sash for insulation, and a tromp’s wall for taking natural energy.
Title: HANARE
architects: Schemata Architecture Office
structural engineer: Ejiri Structual Engineers
Contractor: Takaaki Mitsui
Location: chiba prefecture
Typology: residence
Constructed Area: 933.9 m2
Footprint: 181.96 m2
Architectural area: 180.08m2
Construction year: 2011
Structure: steel, wood
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Slideshow: a wooden library climbs the walls of this four-storey house in Kanagawa, Japan.
Starting in the basement, the first set of bookshelves are a storey high, while a second set begin on the first floor and rise up to reach the ceiling of the floor above.
Tokyo studio Ryuji Fujimura Architects designed the residence, which is enclosed behind a grey powder-coated steel facade.
A mixture of both concrete and steel staircases connect the levels inside the house, while ladders provide access to a second floor loft and to the highest bookshelves.
Ladders are a common feature of many residences we feature from Japan. Ones worth a look include a house with climbing walls inside and another where rooms overlap one another.
See also: a house completely lined with bookshelves in Osaka.
Photography is by Takumi Ota.
Here’s some more information from Ryuji Fujimura Architects:
Storage House by Ryuji Fujimura Architects
The house like a storage located in a residential area on the suburbs of Tokyo.
By providing the underground space, the volume of three floors encloses the space of two layers.
The parking has a large canopy, such as loading dock.
It can be used as a space people gather and is intended to successive to the streets.
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Type: private residence
Architects: Ryuji Fujimura Architects
Structural engineer: Konishi Structural Engineers
Site area: 57.82 m2
Building area: 31.69m2
Floor area total: 56.26m2
Floor area by floor: b1f: 30.31m2 / 1f: 30.31m2 / 2f: 33.00m2
Design period: aug. 2009 – oct. 2010
Construction period: nov. 2010 – apr. 2011
Structure: steel, reinforced concrete
This whale is a vase and the blowhole is where you put your bitty flowers. So adorable!
How fabulous are these ceramics? They are from a company in Japan called Kusafune, and I have to admit there are some things lost in translation that not even google translate is making clear, but that's what is fantastic about such gorgeous creativity – you really don't need to know the language to fall in love. You can find out more about Kusafune on their blog here, and check out the retailers that carry their ceramics here.
This sweet elephant vase with the little bird on the back would make any shelf look better.
There is just something about sheep that I can not resist. Where I live they are everywhere, and I am always telling my husband that someday I will own sheep, so before that is possible…I think I'll take all of these please. – Tiffany King
{Kusafune}
Slideshow: the walls of this house in Tokyo by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates stretch outwards around a secret balcony.
Projecting several metres in front of the two-storey house, the extended walls are supported by narrow columns and define the boundaries of a front entrance courtyard.
Narrow vertical windows frame the front door, which leads in towards bedrooms and bathrooms on the ground floor.
A cantilevered staircase with tapered treads leads up though the centre of the house to a living and dining room that occupies the entire top floor.
Apollo Architects & Associates have designed a number of interesting houses over the last few years – see a selection of them here.
Photography is by Masao Nishikawa.
More information from the architects is provided below:
RING
This project started with the plot which locates at a tranquil residential area in west Tokyo. The client is a high school teacher and his wife.
The first floor with slit windows lays a kids room, a main bedroom and a water area while the 2nd floor resolutely sets a family room with a large opening.
Taking the privacy into consideration, we adopted a court house with entrance attached and the wall encloses the south opening.
To answer to the coverage ratio, we set a grating balcony which functions as a gentle connection of the 1st and 2nd floor and as a stand to appreciate the view of the symbolized tree.
Making maximum use of the compact plot, the masters cherished modern furniture create lively and dynamic space which cannot be imagined from the outside.
Credit Information
Architecture: Satoshi Kurosaki/APOLLO Architects & Associates
Project Outline
Location: Kitayamacho Fuchu city Tokyo
Date of Completion: March 2012
Principal Use: Private House
Structure: RC
Site Area: 104.36m2
Total Floor Area: 88.98m2 (40.99m2/1F, 40.99m2/2F)
Structural Engineer : Kenta Masaki
Mechanical Engineer : Zenei Shimada
Material Information
Exterior Finish: Lath Mortar
Floor: Walnut Flooring & Tile/1F, Walnut Flooring & Tile/2F
Wall: Wall paper
Ceiling: Wall paper
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