A small spatial device that draws in and reflects the presence of the forest.
Rather than simply looking out at the surrounding landscape, it directly brings in the image of the forest as it changes over time.
After sunset, with projected images, it becomes a viewing hut that opens onto the outside world.
The mossy ground has been preserved for decades through the careful act of brushing aside fallen leaves. On this site, which seems almost to refuse human entry, a continuous composition of detached living volumes takes shape.
The central volume is formed through the renovation of a pre-existing villa, which became the axis of the project.
Without altering the time, space, or environment already embedded in the site, the project aspires to create a place for living that quietly moves through them.
This private residence is located in a quiet residential area in central Tokyo. More than 10 tall trees were planted along the neighboring greenery to form a rich green belt. The living and dining rooms face the greenbelt, providing a view full of greenery, which is not easy to achieve in the middle of the city. The patios and terraces are located on each floor and those outside spaces are surrounded by hedges, keeping them isolated from the neighbors. Despite being an urban residence, it establishes its living space where the inside and outside are closely connected.
ＮＡ邸 NA Residence
information:
竣工年：2022年6月
所在地：東京都
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：333 m²
延床面積：804 m²
階数：地上3階
構造：RC造
The villa is arranged in a “U” shape to surround a broad garden so that provides the living/dining room, bedrooms, and bathrooms with views of the greenery scene. The seven bedrooms are kept to a minimum in footprints to create a spacious living/dining room with a maximum ceiling height of over 5.2 meters.
photograph: IT Imaging
Villa OK
information:
竣工年：2021年
所在地：長野県北佐久郡軽井沢町
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：513 m²
延床面積：546 m²
階数：地上2階
構造：RC造＋鉄骨造
information:
year: 2021
location: Karuizawa Nagano, Japan
building type: private residence
BA：513 m²
GFA：546 m²
floor: 2F
structure: RC+S
A house on a site facing a deep green pond, which has fortunately remained for a long time in the downtown.
The architecture has a U-shaped structure centered on the courtyard with a water view. We tried to make the indoor and outdoor materials continuous.
And by looking at the pond in the back, we are creating a rich VISTA with layers.
In order to achieve both a robust frame and freedom of space, the structural type is SRC, and the short side direction 16m facing the pond is established as a pillar-free space. The top floor is a steel-framed Vierendeel structure, which makes it possible to straddle the large span of the lower floor while being light.
Wooden house prototypes that hold expansive living spaces with sufficient environmental lightings while fulfilling the requirement for antiseismic and energy saving functions. Their structures, which are derived from a three-dimensional volume calculation, achieve relatively larger openings and spacious volumes than those from the sole wall quantity calculation system whilst the structures consist of commercially distributed timber.
Type C-01, a two-story house with two bedrooms, has a central atrium and large windows which lead to the garden. This plan gives a sense of spaciousness that exceeds its actual footprints.
The C-02 type is a one-story house with a lifted floor that floats above the surface of the ground. Its living room and dining room have large windows on both sides and that produces a view to see through those volumes. The simple plan positively embraces the surrounding environment.
A villa floating in the forest dappled with sunlight.
Suspended on pilotis among the existing tall trees, the building allows residents to fully experience the changing seasons and the gentle murmur of a nearby stream from every interior space.
This wooden one-story villa is arranged in an L-shape with a large garden at its center. All spaces, including the living room, dining room, bedroom, and large bathroom, face the garden. The kitchen is located in the center of the L-shape and overlooks everything from one end of the building to the other and the garden outside.
A Villa on the coast of Irabu Island, Okinawa
Partial use of steel-reinforced concrete structure and separated glazing from the framework achieve a thirty-meter-long volume transparent to the outdoor for full appreciation of the seascape. Equipped accessories such as a shallow water table, a flying bed and a whirl pool bath entice the visitors into outdoor activities.
A one-story weekend house surrounded by trees.
Its U-shaped plan is composed of a living room wing, a bedroom wing and a courtyard between them.
The roof extends, rising with a reasonable incline, toward the highness of pines and firs so that it intervenes between the scale of humans and of trees to achieve a living space which sits harmoniously in the scenery.
photograph: Shigeo Ogawa 小川重雄
information:
竣工年：2017年7月
所在地：長野県北佐久郡軽井沢町
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：346 m²
延床面積：268 m²
階数：地上1階
構造：木造
A villa standing in a vast forest that reflects the four seasons of the planned area.
The living room and the outdoor terrace on the second floor were designed to feel the seasonal shift at a position closer to green.
Architecture planned as a frame to look at the green and aimed for a space to respond to the surroundings by utilizing natural materials.
The western-style villa situates among the rich greenery. The steady and static appearance expresses the calm and gentle time opposite to everyday life. Characteristic dehumidification measures against land-specific humidity of ground were applied to create a lyrical appearance compatible with the ground. Custom made iron-made lighting, wooden latticed windows, material texture combines elegance and modernity.
Villa M
M邸
information:
竣工年：2016年7月
所在地：長野県北佐久郡軽井沢町
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：223 m²
延床面積：224 m²
階：地上１階
構造：木造一部Ｓ造
information:
year: 2016/7
location: Karuizawa Nagano, Japan
building type: Private residence
BA: 223 m²
GFA: 224 m²
floor: 1F
structure: Timber + steel
A house located in front of cemetery green. The large eaves protect from sunlight and impress lightweight appearance in bustle of a large city.
To get the green wide view from the living room which has a fireplace in the center on 1st floor, the structure is a 13m span SRC beam and small steel posts to support the vertical load.
information:
竣工年：2015年11月
所在地：東京都
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：192 m²
延床面積：523 m²
階：地上2階 地下１階
構造：ＲＣ造一部ＳＲＣ造
information:
year: 2015/11
location: Tokyo, Japan
building type: Private Residence
BA: 192 m²
GFA: 523 m²
floor: 2F/B1F
structure: RC/SRC
A private house commanding a panoramic view of the Rokko mountain range. In this house, the building and the gardens are inseparable from each other. Divided by the building, the gardens have varied characters according to the sizes and the locations. Connected horizontally and vertically through large glass windows and the open atrium, there’s no boundary between the rooms, the gardens and even the scenery far beyond. Small “concert hall” around the atrium is another main feature of this house.
information:
竣工年：2015年10月
所在地：兵庫県
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：339 m²
延床面積：564 m²
階：地上2階 地下1階
構造：RC造一部S造
The residence situates among the larch and maple trees. Locating its living space on the upper floor achieves to provide the residents the opportunity to feel close to nature with surrounding foliage and the wind through it. Adjacently the private spaces, including bedrooms and bathrooms, are connected perpendicularly to the lower floor and their volumes float above the spacious ground patterned with the shadows of trees. Placed carefully into such environment with rich nature, the residence is able to fully receive the benefit from it.
photograph: Shigeo Ogawa 小川重雄
information:
竣工年：2015年9月
所在地：長野県 北佐久郡
用途：個人住宅
建築面積：282 m²
延床面積：330 m²
階：地上2階
構造：ＲＣ造一部Ｓ造
Development of private villas on the west coast of Phuket. 21 luxurious villas are spaciously laid out over 40 acres of land.
Among countless high-end resort developments in Phuket, this project will stand out for the boldness and intensity in its space design, along with its delicate and sophisticated details accomplished by reliable construction techniques.
information:
year: 2015/8 ( show villa for previewing )
location: Phuket, Thailand
building type: Villa Development
GFA: 1,782 m²
floor: 2F/B1F
structure: RC/S
A second house project featuring 12 design types for the vast wetlands area around Yangcheng Lake, a lake in the suburbs of Shanghai that is famous for its crab.
The designs bring the waterside world inside the site, using techniques inspired by natural processes such as branching, expanding, shrinking, floating, and bending.
A project with buildings that blend into the ecology of the surrounding area.
information:
year: in progress
location: Kunshan, China
building type: Residence / Apartment
BA: —
GFA: 700,000 m²
floor: Residence：2F/B1F Apartment：4F
structure: RC/S
A plan for a country house facing Mt. Fuji and blessed with an environment of untouched forest.
Openings are designed to frame the landscape to maximum effect.
The wooden ceiling continues from inside to outside. Sunlight is reflected from a pool and dances on the ceiling, for a feeling of unity with the outside.
information:
竣工年: 2010年
所在地: 山梨県 南都留郡忍野村
用途: 個人住宅
建築面積: 183 m²
延床面積: 393 m²
階: 地上3階
構造: RC造一部S造
information:
year: 2010
location: Yamanashi, Japan
building type: Private Residence
BA: 183 m²
GFA: 393 m²
floor: 3F
structure: RC/S
A four-story residence in the city center.
It proposes a lifestyle surrounded by greenery, even in the city, thanks to the borrowed landscape from the neighboring site.
Vertical continuity is secured through a void that connects the gallery, living room, and bedrooms on the various floors.
information:
竣工年: 2009年
所在地: 東京都 港区
用途：個人住宅
建築面積: 154 m²
延床面積: 498 m²
階: 地上3階、地下1階
構造: RC造
For an extraordinary location facing the sea, the design proposes gentle differences in height and continuity between interior and exterior, with a large roof that extends to cover the terrace.
This blurs the boundary between inside and outside and brings the rich external environment into the interior.
The building is characterized by the contrast between light wood and stone with a strong sense of presence.
葉山ゲストハウス
Hayama Guest House
information:
竣工年: 2009年
所在地: 神奈川県 三浦郡葉山町
用途: ゲストハウス
建築面積: 504 m²
延床面積: 738 m²
階: 地上2階、地下1階
構造: RC造一部S造
An urban residence with a stacked four-floor configuration.
Privacy on the road side is secured by ceramic louvers, while admitting light and air.
But openings toward the greenery on the neighboring side are wide and glazed to bring the greenery into the interior.
information:
竣工年: 2005年
所在地: 東京都 港区
用途：個人住宅
建築面積: 104 m²
延床面積: 389 m²
階: 地上3階、地下1階
構造: RC造
Responding to conditions around the site, a courtyard house plan was adopted for a clinic and two-generation family residence.
The two-story reinforced concrete structure incorporates the horizontal courtyard house plan of the one-story wooden house that formerly stood on the site, and develops it in the vertical direction in the interior and exterior.
矢追秀順邸（続・正面のない家）
information:
竣工年: 1979年
所在地: 大阪府 池田市
用途: 個人住宅 / 診療所
建築面積: 226 m²
延床面積: 349 m²
階: 地上2階
構造: RC造
press: 新建築 1980/08
JA – The Japan architect 22 1996/summer
Yaoi Residence
information:
year: 1979
location: Osaka, Japan
building type: Private Residence / Clinic
BA: 226 m²
GFA: 349 m²
floor: 2F
structure: RC
Because the residence is surrounded by dense two-story houses, the plan is a courtyard house open to the inner side.
The residence has a large number of rooms on a relatively small site, but the spatial integration with the garden and the vertical expanse with skylights make it seem spacious.
