Keitaro Muto Architects

Sunomata

Sunomata

Keitaro Muto

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike

ARCHITECTS
Keitaro Muto

CATEGORY
House

LOCATION
Misasa, Japan

AREA
186.0 m²

YEAR
2014

PHOTOGRAPHS
Teruaki Yoshiike

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
Atushi Fujio

CONTRACTOR
Matsubara Kenchiku Shoji

GARDEN DESIGN
Hiroshi Honda

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike

Text description provided by architect.

This project was to rebuild a house at the corner location between a rice field and a traditional residential area.

From the size of double house and the relations of family units, this house contains a variety of open spaces.

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike

The brief from the client was to design two separate dwellings for one extended family. 

Parts of the dwelling were to be wheelchair accessible, and to reuse the existing big and small stones for Japanese garden, also to be white façade.

The building has been designed as a series of layers that step down towards the rice fields to the west.

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike

This has played an important role on how the internal spaces have been organised.

For the reconstruction of existing Japanese garden, the big stones have been left same positions, and the small stones have been randomly relocated on the site.

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
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According as the area rule that has been made open space on the south side. The layered spaces have been interacted with the gardens to create the equivalent relations between the gardens and the house.

Those were sequentially line up in order, parent’s living room → entrance + bathroom → study room + sun lounge → children’s living room.

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike

Each of the internal spaces have a different relationship to the Japanese garden, whether this is visual or physical, the spaces have been overlapped, and they have been taken a look and ventilated toward the rice fields.

According as the area rule that has been made open space on the south side. The layered spaces have been interacted with the gardens to create the equivalent relations between the gardens and the house.

Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike


Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike
Sunomata
© Teruaki Yoshiike


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First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan


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Keitaro Muto Architects
T +81 58 2157272
Keitaro Muto Architects
29 Imakomachi, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture 500-8069, Japan