Create a cool space controlling sunlight like in a huge ?SUDARE?  (a reed screen). A one-story house is built on a large site in the middle of the residential area, surrounded by low hills. As the neighboring buildings are mostly low-rise houses, almost none of the shadows fall on the site, and in the result the site is always exposed to the sunlight during daytime.

© Kai Nakamura

Architects: SUEP

Location: Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Architects In Charge: Hirokazu Suemitsu, Yoko Suemitsu

Area: 1308.53 sqm

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Kai Nakamura

Other Participants: DE.lab

© Kai Nakamura

Create a cool space controlling sunlight like in a huge ?SUDARE?  (a reed screen). A one-story house is built on a large site in the middle of the residential area, surrounded by low hills. As the neighboring buildings are mostly low-rise houses, almost none of the shadows fall on the site, and in the result the site is always exposed to the sunlight during daytime.

© Kai Nakamura

Therefore we thought to suspend a huge "SUDARE" on the site to create cool energy in its shadow and then locate four boxes that forming house at its bottom. The upper roof is made out of 75 mm by 75 mm thinned wood arranged in a checkerboard pattern.  The span between its ends is approx. ...