House in Niigata

A house facing a wonderful rice field landscape. We considered connecting life and scenery.

The house is composed of the 1st floor that stretches horizontally and three boxes on the roof of the 1st floor.

The 1st floor is a semi-public space with the LDK where the client spends time with friends. When the fittings are opened, the entire floor becomes a large and open space, and the long windows also emphasize the horizontality of the space. The scenery is parallel to the movement of people going back and forth in the space that stretches from east to west. Here, the scenery is the background for everyone who gets together and they are not very strongly conscious of it.

The three boxes on the 2nd floor are private spaces. In contrast to the 1st floor, spaces are arranged orthogonally to the scenery, and they face the scenery directly and be strongly aware of it.
Each box has windows in four directions, north, south, east, and west, and each box is shifted so that light and wind can be taken in as much as possible. Each has the atmosphere of a solitary house, keeps a distance from daily life, faces the scenery, and creates their private world.

By changing the finish of the three boxes and the way to cut out the scenery, the sense of distance from the scenery of each box also changes and becomes more diverse.

Of the three boxes, the western box is finished with beech plywood, the windows are decided by the balance with usability, and the appearance of the scenery is straightforward. The central box wraps the space of the galvanized steel sheet, which scatter light, with a slit boarding wooden plate. The vertical facade of the hut becomes a frame and cuts out the scenery vividly like a picture. In the eastern box, conservative materials such as rugs and Andean rose board are mixed with the walls and ceiling finished with mirrors and full-gloss paint. The reflection of the scenery on the finished surface obscures the boundary between the virtual image and the real image, the outside penetrates the room, and the scenery and the interior are integrated into one.

The composition with a small box on the horizontal 1st floor has a less oppressive feeling, and the line of sight goes out to the sky on the other side. We thought of a form that is suitable for a place close to nature.
The materials and colors of the outer walls are often used in old buildings in the region. It shows a sense of solidarity with the community.

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