Takashi Okuno Architectural Design Office

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

NIKOTAMA TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOUSE

Okuno Architectural Planning

AREA
289 m²

LEAD ARCHITECT
MasaakiI Okuno

CATEGORY
Residential Architecture, Housing, Coliving

LOCATION
Japan

INTERIOR DESIGN
IRIE TAKESHI Architectural Design Office

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Konishi Structural Engineers

CONTRACTOR
okyo Gumi

ASSISTANT ARCHITECTS
Akihiro Tai, Akira Iijima, Hirokazu Wakabayashi

INTERIOR DESIGN ASSISTANT
Takeshi Irie, IRIE TAKESHI architectural design office

EQUIPMENT ENGINEERS
Hasegawa Equipment Planning

YEAR
2020

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

Text description provided by architect.

The Nikotama Terrace is a cooperative house located on the hillside of the Kokubunji cliff line that runs from Futakotamagawa to Kinuta.

The site faces the slope called "Mamushizawa", which used to be a valley, and is protected by the cliff line ordinance.

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

It is a green place, like a mountain, surrounded by native species of the Musashino Plateau. There is also a large retaining wall on the site to eliminate the height difference.

The main concern was how to confront this retaining wall and the building while making the best use of the height difference in the surrounding area? The design answer came as a row house (10 dwelling units) with a green valley.

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

The buildings are arranged in a hook shape to take advantage of the green landscape axis of the cliff line that descends from east to west at the top of Seta Tamagawa Shrine, and the north-south landscape axis that descends from the borrowed scenery of the neighboring land on the north side to the Tamagawa River. bottom.

The space created between the retaining wall and the building created a “terrace-like” (a flat place that opens quickly) space, such as that which you encounter while climbing a mountain.

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

It was planned as a common space for residents that doubles as a row house passage = a green valley.

The atmosphere of the mountains is maintained by covering the ground with dirt floor-like ground and wood chips.

The dwelling unit consists of a maisonette on the 1st floor with a basement floor and maisonettes on the 1st and 2nd floor.

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

The basement and the second floor are tunnel-shaped skeletons with a ceiling height of 3.2m to 4.0m. On the second floor, there is a large window that connects the green landscape.

On the basement floor, the height difference in the site is used to create a space that connects to the garden.

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

Since it is a cooperative house that can be freely customized for each dwelling unit, it is a rich living space that is three-dimensional and varied, such as incorporating a loft and enjoying the ceiling height as it is.

Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama
Nikotama Terrace Cooperative House
© Yasuhiro Nakayama

For the green valley and rooftop vegetation, we planted native species that form the green landscape of the Musashino Plateau, in hopes that in the future they will grow like the trees of Seta Tamagawa Shrine creating a residence in the forest that inherits the original scenery of the Kokubunji cliff line.


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