Art BLD. House

Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta

ART BLD. HOUSE

AKI WATANABE Architects

DESIGN TEAM
AKI WATANABE Architects

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Aki Watanabe

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sadao Hotta

AREA
218 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Japan

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

It is the renovation project of a house with a store and gallery. Another family had lived on the 1st to 3rd floors, and had managed the beauty salon on the basement floor.

Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta
Art BLD. House
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Housing part had been limited to the 2nd and 3rd floors, and the 1st floor had been changed to a rented store and basement floor to a gallery of the client, because the client needed his house,a gallery, a rent space for a store.

We tried to create space/element that can be created by renovation.

Existing stocks have many objects / element which cannot be created by new construction because of many reasons like cost, legal, and so on.

Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta
Art BLD. House
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In this project, we mixed the old and new, not compare those.

We focused on the fact that it has a large span and fire resistance due to the exiting RC structure, and created large living-dining-kitchen space by removing the partitions.

Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta
Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta

The stair hall, which was space for only going up/down because of surrounding fire protection wall and door, was connected with living-dining-kitchen space and became a dynamic space with a three-story atrium(that is not easy to create in Japan because of architectural law)by relocating the fire protection and separating the three uses-private house, store, and gallery.


Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta
Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta
Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta
Art BLD. House
© Sadao Hotta


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