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An indoor courtyard with an earth floor and central tree is concealed behind the concrete walls of this bulky house in Hiroshima by Japanese studio Suppose Design Office (+ slideshow).

Located beside a canal, House in Yagi was designed by Suppose Design Office to deliberately look unfinished, so its concrete walls were left exposed both inside and outside.

“Unlike other projects, the final stage of construction for this house was not aiming towards a finish stage, but to let the owner experience the sense of completion after living here,” said the architects.

Living, dining and sleeping areas are all located in the uppermost section of the house, freeing up the ground floor to accommodate the double-height courtyard.

Square windows of different sizes surround this space, but were left without glazing to allow wind and rain to enter the building.

“All these elements are to enhance the experience of unlimited lifestyle that you may potentially have in this house, and minimise the boundary,” added the architects.

A concrete staircase folds around one corner, leading up to top-floor living spaces that include a combined dining room and kitchen, a bedroom that can be screened behind a partition, a bathroom and a general storage closet.

A narrow void in the floor plate creates a balcony looking down to the space below, but can be screened behind a folding glass door to prevent draughts.

The house accommodates a growing family of four, so could be adapted in the future to add new rooms.

Suppose Design Office is led by architect Makoto Tanijiri. Past projects by the firm include House in Minamimachi, a residence with offset floors, and House in Kamiosuga, which features walls that only reach halfway down from the ceiling.

Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.

Here’s a project description from Suppose Design Office:

The House of Yagi

The House of Yagi is designed with the idea of an incomplete/complete form. Unlike other projects, the final stage of construction for this house was not aiming towards a finish stage, but to let the owner experience the sense of completion after living here.

Interior space of the house is designed to maximise the interaction to its surrounding environment. Ground floor material remained the same as the original site, with a single tree standing in the centre to present a natural contrast with the surrounding area. Windows of the 1st storey are kept open without any window shield or glass and creates an interesting interaction with wind and rain.

All these elements are to enhance the experience of unlimited lifestyle that you may potentially have in this house, and minimise the boundary. Through this different interpretation of connecting the exterior and interior space, new ways of living can be explored by the client.

Location: Hiroshima city, Japan
Principal use: personal house
Site area: 155.60 sqm
Building area: 56.24 sqm
Total floor area: 112.48 sqm
(1F: 56.24 sqm 2F: 56.24 sqm)
Completion: June 2012
Design period: April 2011 – January 2011
Construction period: February 2011 – June 2012
Structure: RC structure
Client: a couple and children
Project architect: Makoto Tanijiri [Suppose Design Office] + Ohno Hirohumi [Ohno JAPAN] Lighting: Original
Products: dining table
Flooring: 1F – masa soil, 2F – elm flooring + WAX (mat)
Internal Wall: exposed concrete
Ceiling: exposed concrete
Construction: Shinkou Kensetsu

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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

A zig-zagging metal wall divides this clothes shop by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office, separating outerwear from undergarments.

A recessed skylight on one side of the 52 shop in in Shizuoka, Japan, illuminates a gallery of hanging coats, shirts and trousers.

Small trees are planted in the floor below the skylight.

There are no windows on the other side of the wall, where dangling light bulbs are suspended over undergarments, jerseys and accessories.

A staircase in one corner leads to a first-floor mezzanine overlooking the shop floor.

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Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.

The following information has been provided by the architects.

We had been requested to design a clothing shop in Shizuoka-shi Japan. In residential projects, we think about the relationship between the internal and external space but for this project, we started to think about the relationship between the products and the two different spaces.

In the west there are many galleries that do not use spots lights but rather uses natural light to light up the space. The reasoning for the use of natural lighting is that as most painting were painted under natural lighting and only when the painting is viewed under the state it was painted the true beauty of the painting will not show.

Could we not think the same for clothes? By creating a room that is like the outside and creating a room that is like inside, the clothes, shoes and accessories can be place in their rightful space.

A 9mm metal sheet wall was placed in a zigzag manner to separate the two different spaces and created big openings.

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In the space light pours in from the skylight would be for outerwear, shoes and other products that would be used outside. The space that is light up with warm artificial lighting would be for inner wear and stationary. Each product had it place and we placed them to the rightful place.

By creating an internal space and external space in a building using only natural light effect, we were able to find a new relationship between outdoor and indoor space.

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Location: Magarikane, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, Japan
Principal use: Clothier
Construction Company: Mitsuko Terada
Structural Engineer: Ohno Japan
Main Structure : Steel construction, 2 story
Site Area: 460.35 sqm
Roof area: 112.62sqm
Total floor area: 127.333sqm
Completion: March. 2011
Design period: March – October 2010
Construction period: March 2010-November. 2010
Project team: Suppose design office | Makoto Tanijiri, in charge : Masashi Shiino
Photographer: Toshiyuki Yano

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Earth is banked up to the ground floor windows of this residence in Hidaka, Japan, by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office.

Long counters down either side of the living space form small landings for the steps leading outside and upstairs.

The ground floor is wrapped in glazing, while the overhanging upper floor, supported on stone pillars, provides more privacy.

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Photographs are by Toshiyuki Yano.

The information below is from Suppose Design Office:

House in Hidaka

This is a house that is engaging nature to a part of a life in the dwelling through a wave of a ground from outside to the inside.

The site is placed in Saitama–ken, Japan, where it has a rich nature environment with beautiful scenery of a hill. The client wanted their house that is open to the nature environment and also has a depth in the space.

The ground is covering the half of the 1st floor of the dwelling. Because of the light hill around the house, residents could feel the connection with the surrounding environment closer as if they are living in the nature. To protect the building from the pressure of soil of the hill, the foundation of the house was built up and wrapping the half part of the wall at the ground level.

The half walls have multiple functions such as a table, shelves, and stools. In other words, residents could find their own way to use the space as if they are finding their own, comfortable space in nature like a hill with fine sunlight or under the trees with soft light through leaves.

Usually, there is a separation between a house and its surrounding environment to protect its privacy.

For the house, we tried to create neutral line between inside and outside in engaging the landscape into the house. We hope the architecture could create an environment that has more interactive relationship between nature and a life of residents.

Location: Saitama city, Japan
Principal use: private house
Site area: 451.13 sqm
Building area: 95.76sqm
Total floor area: 138.05sqm
( 1F: 54.27sqm/ 2F: 83.78sqm )
Structure: Steel structure
Client: a couple and one children
Project architect: Makoto Tanijiri [suppose design office]+ Kenji Nawa [Nawakenji-m] Project team: suppose design office + Nawakenji-m, in-charge;Hiroshi Yamagami
Lighting: Caravaggio Opal P0 [LIGHT YEARS] Flooring: 1F・oak flooring, 2F・white ash flooring
Internal Wall: diatomaceous earth, plaster finish
Ceiling: diatomaceous earth, plaster finish
Photographer: Toshiyuki Yano

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House in Fukawa by Suppose Design Office	House in Minamimachi 3 by Suppose Design Office	House in Kamiosuga by Suppose Design Office

This house by Suppose Design Office in Hiroshima, Japan, is nestled into the hillside beneath a road and commands views over the city of Fukuyama.

Rooms requiring privacy, such as bedrooms and bathrooms, are concealed in two towers, while the living and dining room occupy glazed plateaus in between.

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The information that follows is from Suppose Design Office:

House in Fukuyama

The house in Fukuyama is standing at rising of a brae where it has a panoramic view of Fukuyama city.

The client wanted their house to open to the great view of the city, and on the same time, to close from surroundings for privacy.

For the two opposite requests, we designed the house considering a form of the site and its material use.

Because the site was placed at lower level of a street, all rooms were put at the level to block neighbors eyes, and at the opposite side, it is fully open to the Fukuyama city.

At the open side, living room and dining room is placed, and they have same finishes as exterior walls.

For rooms that are for private like a bathroom, they have more clean and smooth finishes.

Because of the differences of the site uses and material finishes, there are more varieties of atmosphere inside.

Moreover, through the same finish walls with outside, trees in a mountain and a courtyard are reflected to the inside. The shadows of the trees connect inside and outside more closely and open as if the interior is a part of the hill.

We hope the house is creating space that has well harmonize between privacy and open in reconsidering the condition of the site and the meaning of material of architecture.

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