Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

White Cave

White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

WHITE CAVE

Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

AREA
419.0 m2

YEAR
2007

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Oita , Japan

White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

Text description provided by architect.

The house is built on a hill looking down at a town area. The site's shape has an irregular form. There is a height difference of 2m in the site.

White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

The north side is adjacent to a neighbor with this height difference. In the west and the south sides trees grow thick right next to the neighbors. And to the East, you can see the town area.

Walking to the site through a path that goes side by side, causes the scenery to change as we walk, and feels very attractive.

We arranged the building parallel to the path and saved the height difference inside the volume placed across the site.

White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

We wanted to give the building the same variety as the complex surroundings of the site and its irregular shape, causing disorder but not confusion, on a single operation.

The angle of the walls is slightly changed to add more dynamism to the spaces as the user moves. Even the relation with the surroundings, that control and distances views and light, became complex.

White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

The outside walls and the roof have a rough concrete finish, and the openings express the thickness of the concrete that form the volume.

We wanted to continue with the characteristic silence of the place, given by the surrounding concrete wall, the ancient burial mounds park and the dense trees.

White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

We thought that the appearance of a hard static concrete volume responded to the surroundings of this location.


White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
White Cave
© Takao Shiotsuka Atelier


White Cave

White Cave
White Cave
White Cave

Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
T +81 97 5388828 F +81 97 5388829
Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
3-5-3, Chuoh-Machi, Oita-Shi, Oita 870-0035, Japan