Daigo Ishii + Future-Scape Architects

Cottage In Tsumari

Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii

COTTAGE IN TSUMARI

Daigo Ishii , Future-scape Architects

ARCHITECTS
Daigo Ishii , Future-scape Architects

CLIENT
Tokachi Region Secretariat

PHOTOGRAPHS
Koji FUJII

MECHANICAL ENGINEERSTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Takuetsu Corporation, Masaya Uchida

IN COOPERATION WITH
Hiroyuki Kato

MECHANICAL ENGINEER 
Masaya Uchida (Takuetsu Corporation)

STRUCTURE ENGINEERArchitect
Takumi Design Office, Shoichi Nagumo

ARCHITECT
Future-scape Architects, Daigo Ishii

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
Shoichi Nagumo (Takumi Design Office)

IN COOPERATION WITH
Hiroyuki Kato

LOCATION
Tokamachi, Japan

CATEGORY
Houses

AREA
67.48 m²

YEAR
2010

Text description provided by architect.

A low-cost public cottage for locals and visitors, located within a beech woods park, within a region with the heaviest snowfall in Japan, often as deep as 4m. It was an architecture in that two volumes were combined.

Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii

One, outward form Big Box. It was determined as the maximum volume possible from the budget with local details for withstanding heavy snow without maintenance in the winter, when the cottage becomes isolated.

The big volume also enables comfortable stay in the summer. The other is named Tube.

There the essential functions for habitation were placed in a row.Tube is complicatedly bent by the restriction of Big Box, and Big Box is cut irregularly by the bent Tube. The gap between both generates an unexpected space.

Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii

The contrast of colors or activities between both offer different vantages for seeing the woods.

The exterior gives similar impression to the local houses, which the people are used to seeing.

Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii

So, they aren't conscious of it: a consideration to the fact that the site is within a park.

At the same time, it is not the same but delicately different in the degree that they cannot recognize its difference when they observe in detail.

Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii

It is an attitude for designing the new architecture in the region with mature context. Stepping to the interior, the impression changes.

A new contrast arises between the familiar exterior and the unexpected interior, adding to the contrast between Big Box and Tube.

Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii


Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii
Cottage In Tsumari
© Koji Fujii


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