Voici la société Naf Architect & Design qui a pensé cette maison, située dans un quartier résidentiel de Tokyo. Avec un véritable mur d’escalade et un design très épuré, cette construction pensée pour une famille se dévoile en images dans la suite de l’article.
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Slideshow: none of the elongated rooms inside this curvy apartment block in Osaka are more than two metres wide.
Designed by Japanese architects Spacespace, the three-storey building folds around a narrow courtyard, while external staircases and balconies branch across from above.
These metal staircases provide direct access to four of the five apartments contained within the block.
A small shop is located on the ground floor and faces straight out towards the street.
You can also see another long and narrow building designed by Spacespace here.
Photography is by Koichi Torimura.
The text below was provided by the architects:
D-Apartment (Casa Kojiro)
Smooth configuration
This collective housing’s scale is intermediate position between detached housing and building.
This project site is situated on the west side of small station, a big 700-year-old camphor tree passing through the platform and the canopy.
The west side being mixed multiplicity of environmental-elements (bicycle-parking space, shrine, shops under the elevated, small street stand, etc) is more congested and lively than the east side being developed small station plaza and roundabout in order.
This project site having 5 borders is enclosed in too many elements, but the front road on the west side of this site facing 1st floor office and the elevated platform viewing to north, the sun to south are particularly important things.
So, I thought to design the building connecting these 3 elements smoothly.
Shapes and environment
Ordinarily collective housing for single family is 20-30㎡ in Japan.
This plan is composed of 4m×8m grid, and bathroom, lavatory, corridor and entrance occupy it’s large area.
So, living space is very small. Dwelling variation is made by only changing the wallpaper.
If dwelling unit is 2m×16m, this plan widen to only one side and become corridor like room.
Bathroom and bedroom is allocated on the end. This privacy area is hidden by bending the room shape, not getting the walls up.
Whole volume is consist of 2 rooms fit in 1floor×3layers. Allocating 2m wide wall-like volume along the border line of lot, and controlling the position of open-air stairs, generate the method of dwelling variation by it’s shapes and relation to environment.
Very thin courtyard generated by these process and open-air stairs are very comfortable space compared to ordinary open-air stairs of collective housing enclosed in neighbor buildings.
Windows are aligned by a pair (symmetrical to room center line) for ventilating and daylighting the courtyard through 2m volume.
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Imaginative power of anonymous plans
Many people will have some experience in apartment-hunting. We often encounter diversified plans. Some apartment has strangely huge balcony, and is labyrinthine, is extremely long.
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These fascinating aspects in particular to anonymous apartment plans are only discovering things for architects. I make an attempt to using imaginative power of anonymous plans for designing method. The possibility of generating new architecture is already in existence.
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Architects: SPACESPACE /Takanori Kagawa + Junko Kishigami
Structural design: OHNO JAPAN
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Constructor: PanaHome
Location: Osaka, Japan
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Program: collective housing + shop
Area: site161.72m2・floor240.16m2
Structure: steel・3stories
Date: December, 2011
Cette résidence construite à Giheung-Gu en Corée veut évoquer l’imagerie d’une sucrerie pour enfant avec des anneaux roses et blancs. Pensée par Moon Hoon, l’architecture originale de cette construction est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en images.
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Le cabiner d’architecture japonais Takao Shiotsuka Atelier nous propose de découvrir un de leurs derniers projets. Appelée “Cloudy House”, cette résidence située en banlieue de Oita dispose d’un design particulier et propose un intérieur simple mais réussi. Plus de clichés dans la suite.
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Slideshow: one huge window stretches across the black facade of this house overlooking the bay in Osaka.
Designed by Japanese architect Daijiro Takakusa, the two-storey-high House-dT incorporates a soundproofed drumming studio with an artist’s workshop above.
A silhouette of a tree decorates the wall behind the window, where a staircase connects the living and utility rooms with bedrooms upstairs.
We’ve featured quite a few houses in Japan this week – see them all here.
The text below is from Daijiro Takakusa:
The site of “House-dT” is in the new residential area of the Osaka southern part, and can overlook Osaka Bay.
I designed this house in this site for husband whose hobby is playing a drum , and wife who is a painter.
They requested four things to the design of the house.
The one was that they would live calmly every day looking Osaka Bay, and the two was that husband would have a studio for playing a drum completely, the three was that wife would have a atelier which could open a drawing class in the future, and the four was that they would have a large yard for a barbecue party.
In order to realize their requests in this narrow site, I piled up the atelier on the studio, and arranged a well space between these spaces and the living space for that the noise from the studio and the atelier would not be get across to the living space.
And I filled these all spaces in the simple box form, and arranged the box aslant in this site in order to take the large yard.
Since the well space will be passed on the way to every rooms, I considered that the well space would be the most important space, and decided to make this well space into attractive space.
I prepared the big window in one side of this well space from which Osaka Bay could be overlooked, and decided to use the other side of this well space as a canvas on which wife would draw the picture.
The theme of the picture was taken as a big tree , since I expected that the picture would protect this family, and husband’s first name “Daiki” means a big tree in japanese.
Since I considered that the view of Osaka Bay which would be overlooked from the interior, and the picture of a big tree were the most important for this house, I decided to design the house as simply as possible.
Après la diffusion de la première série de clichés et dans le cadre des Fubiz Awards, nous retrouvons le photographe japonais Hideaki Hamada avec de nouvelles mises en scène de ses enfants Haru et Mina. Des clichés toujours aussi réussis à découvrir dans la suite.
Retrouvez davantage de photographies sur le site officiel d’Hideaki Hamada.
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A small wooden dining table at the heart of this house in Fukuoka, Japan, is overlooked from every other room.
Recently completed by Japanese architects rhythmdesign, the two-storey House in Iizuka is hexagonal in plan and has rooms arranged around the perimeter.
Floors throughout the house are wooden, as are the sliding doors that create privacy around a double-height dressing room.
To see more houses in Japan, click here.
Photography is by Koichi Torimura .
The text below is from rhythmdesign:
House In Iizuka
This two-stories residence with wooden structure is located in a town by an hour drive from Fukuoka city, in southern part of Japan.
The family aimed to get various places in a site which has a shape of an umbrella or an arrow.
We proposed to create diverse topography in the house, and each space is facing to surroundings equally.
At the beginning of this project, a client and we were looking for a site to build the house.
Then, the client found a site which has shape of 100m2 triangle with 3m wide and 30m long frontage road.
The shape of the site resembles an umbrella or an allow. When we had first site visit, a lot of neighbors came out and gave us information about the site.
The information from the neighbors was a wide range of topics, for instance, there are good neighbors around there and all the houses around the site are elevated about 60cm from front road because the road was flooded few times by heavy rains stroke the site occasionally.
The client told us that they do not need Living room and dining is in center of the family, and each one of the family spend their time separately but feels signs each other.
So the client wished to get diversity of places in the site. As a result, the house is facing towards every neighbors equally, and dining room is located in center of the house which can be seen from every room.
Title: house in IIZUKA
Location: Rakuichi, IIzuka city, Fukuoka pref., JAPAN
Type of Project: Single Family House
Status: completed
Structure: wood
Site area: 395.93m2
Building area: 68.68m2
Gross internal floor area:104.87m2
Commissioned: June 2010
Completed: November 2011
Client: Private
Budget: Confidential
Architects: rhythmdesign
Project Architect: Kenichiro Ide
Design
Team: Kenichiro Ide, Mariko Shimada
Structural Engineers: Kuroiwa Structural Engineers
Funiture: E&Y CO.,LTD.
Support: FORZA
Main contractor: Ikohouse corporation
Slideshow: Japanese architects Future Studio conceived the rooftop terrace of this Hiroshima house as a stage, with its audience in the living room and kitchen.
A ladder leads up from the first floor rooms to the sun deck, which is visible behind a plane of clear glass and two glazed doors.
The walls of the house are rounded, and a second staircase follows these curves to connect the living room with ground floor rooms below.
Brush strokes are visible on the dark-rendered exterior walls and all the windows are square.
The project was completed in 2011, around the same time as the architects also finished a series of colourful public toilets – see them here.
Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.
Here’s some text from Future Studio:
Light stage house
The concept of this house, “sunlight stage” is a proposal of the way of taking sunlight on the site where the condition of sunlight is severe.
The taking point of sunlight is set to a high position of the north side of the house, and all plans arise there.
It becomes the plan of the curved surface because running on of the sun is analyzed, and the angle of incidence is calculated, and brightness is brought to the residence space by the reflection of sunlight.
The sunlight stage changes by making it to a curved and edgeless surface according to the change in the solar position in the difference and the weather, and the space changes.
In the large space of the curved space that changes with the sunlight stage where it keeps changing the expression, we feel the sense wrapped in light from the sunlight stage gently.
Name of the project: Light stage house
Architect: Bunzo Ogawa
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Use: Private house
Building area: 52.14sqm
Gross area: 104.28sqm
Building scale: 2 stories
Structure system: Timber
Period of design: 2009.11-2010.11
Period of construction: 2010.12-2011.6
Japanese studio Tato Architects have converted a warehouse in Osaka into a house where residents can climb up the walls.
Designed for a couple who enjoy rock-climbing in their spare time, the two-storey house has a sloping wooden wall on the first floor with affixed treads for climbing practice.
A double-height living and dining room stretches across one half of the residence, where a ladder provides a shortcut up and down from the master bedroom.
During the renovation the architects also re-clad the building in galvanised steel and replaced a pair of large shutters with square glazing panels.
If you’re interested in rock-climbing walls, why not check some other stories we’ve featured about them here?
Photography is by Satoshi Shigeta.
Here’s the full project description from Tato Architects:
House in Izumi-Ohmiya, a project converting a warehouse into residence.
A warehouse was converted into a residential space for a young couple who like bouldering which is a kind of free climbing and a sport to climb rocks of two to four meters high without lifeline.
The inside walls are designed in several leaned parts for them to attach some instruments to practice bouldering. For changing the nature of the building we came up with additional walls minimizing the modification to the existing building. As the outside walls were of ACL and the resistance against heat and rain were anticipated, they are covered with corrugated galvalume steal plates with heat insulator attached on the back. Floor heating with heat condensing stuff is laid over the existing floor for maintaining air conditioning of the big volume space. We can use electricity cheaply during a period at night. The air conditioning system uses such electricity to heat the floor concrete with heaters buried therein. Sunlight through the fixed large window will additionally heat up the floor. Electric energy and sunlight stored in the floor concrete will be released from the surface throughout the day.
The existed shutter was removed and a big window is provided instead. Taking advantage of parking space in the front, the fence was furnished with corrugated plates of light transmitting milk-white for the eyes from the street to be taken off.
The design was made to be converted into a light, broad residential space for the young client who likes carpentry as well.
Project name: House in Izumi_ohimiya
Location of site: Osaka Japan
Site area: 162.15m2
Building area: 79.20m2
Total floor area: 118.41m2
Type of Construction: Steel
Program:house&atelier
Project by: Tato architects
Principal designer: Yo shimada
The protruding entrance lobby of this Tokyo house has a seamless frosted facade that glows with diffused light.
Top and above: photograph is by Satoshi Shigeta
Named Cube Court House, the three-storey residence by Japanese architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates encloses a central courtyard and tree.
Above: photograph is by Satoshi Shigeta
A large double-height room occupies the majority of the ground floor, accommodating a kitchen, lounge and dining area.
Two-storey-high glass walls on both sides of the courtyard permit views across from this living room towards bedrooms on the ground and first floors.
A glazed sunroof is the only room on the top floor and opens out onto a terrace overlooking the courtyard below.
You can also see more projects by the same architects here, including a long narrow house divided lengthways.
Photography is by SOA, apart from where otherwise stated.
Above: photograph is by Satoshi Shigeta
Here’s some more text from Shinichi Ogawa & Associates:
Cube Court House (S Residence)
Within a calm residential area in Tokyo, this house has the two contrasting faces: an intimate, introverted, closed house with courtyard and an outward looking, open glasshouse above.
A tall wall of frosted glass on the principal façade brings sunlight into the entrance hall, through which the LDK room is accessed.
The large courtyard is bounded on the North by the LDK and on the opposite side the children’s room and master bedroom.
The small courtyard is placed for the bathroom and the toilets, interrupting the eyes. Totally closed toward the neighborhood, the cubic courtyard connects these modestly sized rooms indirectly, creating a sense of togetherness, while providing a comfortable, spacious living environment; well ventilated, filled with sunlight and connected to the changing seasons.
In contrast, the 3rd floor glazed penthouse and a roof top terrace are perfectly opened towards the city.
Project name: CUBE COURT HOUSE
Completion: 2010
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Program: residence
Structural system: reinforced concrete, steel frame
Site area: 177.72 sqm
Building area: 88.75 sqm
Total floor space: 154.60 sqm
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