OUTSIDE IN, a simple but not so simple modern home
Designed by Takeshi Hosaka and located in Yamanashi-Japan, this modern home looks simple at a glance. But the design complexity that requires a careful calculation would feel in every part, inside the house.
Standing on a land area of 91.15m2, Mr. Takeshi collaborated with Ohno JAPAN for handle the structure design of the building. The structure of the building made by woods, and designed in such a way that makes this home as a comfortable dwelling with such complexity you could found on it beauty design.
Here the architects description about the building:
-Gradation of scenery, from outdoor area to inside area-
…On my first visit there, I found the houses of one story and two stories both stand close together but that there remain some empty lots, farming fields, wooded areas and unpaved roads. I remember that the bounty and generosity of the place inspired me. My client told me that we would have the opportunity to hear beautiful sound of birds in the early mornings and to see wild pheasants, peafowl and every now and then raccoon dogs. I looked for how the residents here could live in harmony with such nature and climate even in a crowded residential area. In the beginning I destroyed half of the main house, and then designed and built a new, one-storied structure with a continuous gradation from the wooded area located on the south side of the house to the inside area – that is, it is a boundary structure built in space between nature and human beings.
-Sky above, forest sidelong, ground below-
The sky being above the house, the forest close to the house, and the ground below the house, nature is attractive enough to be taken in into the inside area of the house. I planned a structure in which nature is horizontally and vertically incorporated as an integral part of the design of the structure to create a gradation from the outside area to the inside areas. To put it concretely, the open shed lies facing the south, which makes it possible for the residents to feel as if they were in one room, filled with a sense of unity with the wooden area. And the upper part of the house also has an open structure, consisting of some combinations of reinforced concrete V beams and transparent acrylic, as a result of which the residents can see the sky through the transparent acrylic ceiling. The V-beam structure conveys an impression of durability and reliability, while the presence of the transparent acrylic is next to nothing, which enables us to ignore the acrylic unconsciously and see only the rows of reinforced concrete V beams. What comes into our eyes is nothing but the beams, so we feel the sky so close to us, being unconscious of the existence of the roof. And the dining room is located at the end of the house, which is a boundary area between outside area and insider area in terms of the gradation. I regarded the floor of the dining room as comprising a part of the ground, and therefore I planted flowers and trees there.
OUTSIDE IN views at night
Details on the entrance of OUTSIDE IN
Open-close living room on the OUTSIDE IN
The open bedroom on OUTSIDE IN
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The sky beingness above the house, the timberland end to the sanctuary, and the position beneath the shelter, nature is attractive enough to be understood in into the privileged area of the accommodation.