Form Kouichi Kimura Architects

House Of Reticence

House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota

HOUSE OF RETICENCE

Form | Kouichi Kimura Architects

PHOTOGRAPHS
Takumi Ota

AREA
164.29 m2

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Japan

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This house is built on the triangle site with a width of 18 m.

The client has requested to make the best use of the characteristic site form to build a house with both privacy protection and a sense of openness in the house.

House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota

The building is composed of the echelon volume successive along the site form, and the high wall.

The landscape-oriented façade, which is one of the external features and brought about by making good use of the site width, allows people’s line of sight to be introduced in the horizontal direction.

The interior space design also takes advantage of the site width.

House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota

On the first floor the entrance hall is located at the center.

On its both ends are the spot gardens that are allocated in the spaces separated by the Japanese room on the irregular site form.

House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota

As the line of sight is designed to be as long as possible, the internal space is visually expanded so as to realize the space that gives an open feeling.

On the second floor the living room and the balcony are laid out on both ends.

House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota

In addition, the ceiling of the living room is designed to be higher than that of the other rooms. These designs intensify visual expansion.

The opening at the upper side of the living room, as well as the glass wall on the balcony where a bench is furnished, is one of the elements that produce a sense of openness.

House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota

By considering the site form to select the locations for the openings and control the line of sight, this house realizes the spaces that give a sense of openness but are closed off to the periphery.


House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota
House Of Reticence
© Takumi Ota


House Of Reticence
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House Of Reticence
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