Small core house of Ochiaigawa

Small core house of Ochiaigawa

Small core house of Ochiaigawa

UNIT-O

ARCHITECTS
UNIT-O

AREA
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Higashikurume, Japan

TYPE
Residential › Private House

This house is a minimum house for young couples built along the riverside of Ochiaigawa of Higashikurume, Tokyo prefecture, in Japan.

Small core house of Ochiaigawa
Small core house of Ochiaigawa

It is built in the environment that is full of the green that was adjacent in Ochiaigawa, and it's white and simple volume like a "TOFU" individualizes surrounding environment.

We designed interior so that nobody could feel and see their daily life extremely.

Outer shell has minimum function such as only an insulation and the lighting, and it is abstract expression of a weak, white and thin outline.

Small core house of Ochiaigawa
Small core house of Ochiaigawa

Contrary to it,We put almost daily life function into the core which constitutes a nest. Furthermore, We paint the core in deep-green and assume it contrastive expression with outer shell.

The core divides the space of one room gently and it serves as an important infrastructure of the life.

Small core house of Ochiaigawa
Small core house of Ochiaigawa

From the room such as an abstract picture, scenery of Ochiaigawa totally gets through a big picture window. It also seems to be one representational painting cut on a frame.

We examined materials closely and made space without waste for the demand(low-cost) of the client.Besides, We performed interior paint in the self-build by the workshop of the client, architects and the students.