Takeshi Hirobe Architects designs Japanese home to "dance round" advanced web site
Difficult web site constraints knowledgeable the angular form of this concrete home named Villa MKZ, designed by Japanese studio Takeshi Hirobe Architects.
Situated in Minamiboso Metropolis, Japan, the vacation house’s plan contains an association of interlocking, triangular volumes topped with an angular roofscape.
It’s designed by Takeshi Hirobe Architects to weave across the constraints of its irregularly-shaped web site, equivalent to protruding bedrock, stage modifications and an unbuildable zone on one facet.
“The footprint of this trip house dances across the advanced situations of the location,” studio founder Takeshi Hirobe advised Dezeen.
Villa MKZ contains a most important home with a single bed room and enormous open residing areas, alongside a separate constructing with a storage and visitor room.
The association of those two buildings, that are separated by a courtyard, is a response to the change in stage throughout the location.
“Though the location is splendidly located overlooking an ocean view to the southeast, there’s an elevation change of about 1.4 metres within the centre,” mentioned Hirobe.
“By necessity, a indifferent constructing housing a two-car storage and guestroom is located on the east facet, the place the elevation hole is smallest, however the consumer requested that the primary home weaves across the tough web site situations.”
Inside, Villa MKZ options massive rooms bordered by concrete and timber partitions. Expansive openings, floor-to-ceiling home windows and balconies present a connection to the encompassing nature and body views of the close by ocean.
“By manipulating the interlocked triangles, we freely various the connection with the panorama, the dimensions of the rooms, and the amount of the areas,” mentioned Hirobe. “The result’s a natural-feeling inside scale and a way of affinity between the buildings and the location.”
A big open-plan house wraps across the sea-facing portion of the house and features as an open kitchen, residing and eating house stuffed with naturally-toned furnishings and wood parts.
The concrete construction has been left predominantly uncovered, however lined in locations by wood ceiling panels to offer some areas a extra stress-free really feel. The roof slabs are supported by polygonal columns all through.
Versatile and perforated partitions, together with sliding doorways constituted of vertically positioned timber battens, create a way of openness and improve the connections between the areas.
Finishing the mission is the courtyard, which separates the 2 buildings and is ready on a raised platform to help circulation throughout the steep web site.
“The courtyard is designed to be an area the place the steps and stage variations that initially existed on the location are made to hook up with every constructing,” mentioned Hirobe.
“Right here, we aimed to make the continuity between the architectural design and the panorama inseparable.”
Different Japanese houses lately featured on Dezeen embody a wood-clad flood-resilient house by Ushijima Architects and a Tokyo house with a curved facade designed to resemble the earth rising from the bottom.
The images is by Koichi Torimura.
