House in Minohshinmachi - The Nature Gradation

A housing for a young couple, located in the northernmost new town of Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture. Even though the area around the planned site is blessed with a natural environment, there were many houses that were unchanged from the center of the city.

The client's couple sought a simple home where they could feel the rich natural environment in their daily lives in such a land. It faces the road on the south side of the site, residential land on the east and west sides, and the management road of the Satoyama Farm, which was established as a buffer zone for the sediment disaster warning zone on the north side. The green of Mt. Aogai, the northernmost point of Minoh, spreads out in the back. In such an environment, the boundary between the building and nature was obscured, and the aim was to create a quiet home that responds to the surrounding natural environment.

The building was a one-story building with a loose gabled roof whose volume was reduced so that it could be gently continuous with the surrounding landscape. Since the construction budget was extremely limited, the structural form was the conventional wooden construction method, all columns were 105 mm square, and all of them could be constructed with ordinary metal. in the longitudinal direction, and a single inside and outside climbing beam and Highly earthquake-resistant performance is ensured by using a simple left-right symmetrical frame structure with columns arranged at intervals of 1 pitch rafters with narrowed tips are used to reduce the construction period. We are trying to shorten it. Paired openings, light roofs and deep eaves expand the interior space, large toplights allow trees and the blue sky to penetrate, and nested rooms create an intermediate area that makes the interior and exterior of the building more vague. There is. The two pillars that were installed in the center of the large space as a building member with a small cross section gave the space a calming effect like a standing tree in the forest.

I think that it was not a method of cutting out nature as a landscape in a closed space, but rather a quiet residence as if there were daily life in the natural environment.

Site area: 210.10m2
Building area: 87.52m2
Building rate: 41.66％
Total floor area: 81.15m2
Floor-area ratio: 81.15m2
Main structure: Wooden frame
Video link: https://youtu.be/4hGfkJosLfo
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External link 2 "Archdaily": https://bit.ly/3gyu7KR
Public link: https://yk-a.jp

Client: Shuhei Kimura
Architect and Project Leader: Yasuyuki Kitamura
Structural Engineering: Takuma Togo
Landscape: Akihiro Oku
Builder: Takada Corporation
Site manager: Masato Hino
Photographs: Masashige Akeda
Video:Tanpan studio

House in Minohshinmachi - The Nature Gradation by Yasuyuki Kitamura in Japan won the WA Award Cycle 35. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.