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House in Hoshigaoka
Japanese Property: Contemporary Home ? design by Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates
28 Aug 2017
House in Osaka
Design: Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates
Location: Hirakata-shi, Osaka, Japan
House in Hoshigaoka

The site is located in North Eastern part of Osaka prefecture, where its surrounding neighborhood in mature residential quarter remains quiet, even though it is just a little away from a main road. While the site has a flat condition as it does not have any height difference, the surrounding residential area has ups and downs, and the site is in a sunken part of the area. This is a project to design a small house for three adult residents – an elderly couple and their grown up child.
Since the site is large enough compared to the requested volume of the house, it was possible to provide a parking space on the north side, a garden space on the south side, and a space for a wide approach on the west side of the site.

1st and 2nd floor volumes are layered in slightly shifted positions against each other, and a square hipped roof is placed on top of those volumes as if like an umbrella. The gaps produced by the shifted volumes are turned into elements such as an open ceiling space or a high side lighting – therefore the layering of the lower floor and upper floor volumes was carefully coordinated to define and adjust the dimensions of thos...