House in Kai / MAMM DESIGN
The only strong request from client was that all rooms should be oriented to the south. Kai-city, where they have harsh winter, is in Kofu basin, which is located in central part of Japan.
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Architects: MAMM DESIGN
Location: Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Area: 265.48 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Daici Ano
Structure Engineer: Ohno JAPAN
Lighting Designer: LIGHTDESIGN
© Daici Ano
The only strong request from client was that all rooms should be oriented to the south. Kai-city, where they have harsh winter, is in Kofu basin, which is located in central part of Japan.
© Daici Ano
We realized that people who lives in the area has incomparably more longing than we have in Tokyo. According to site regulations, it is possible to stack all rooms simply vertically and build a 3-story house. But we think it is not a good solution, since it will weaken relations among family who occupies each floor, though the family has two small children. And it must be a coercive volume compared with surrounding two-story houses.
Plan
Thus, we designed the volume as a terraced shape in which all rooms face south though the floors still keep horizontally connections. The volume consists of, from lower level, a living room connecting with front yard, a gallery / r...
© Daici Ano
Architects: MAMM DESIGN
Location: Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Area: 265.48 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Daici Ano
Structure Engineer: Ohno JAPAN
Lighting Designer: LIGHTDESIGN
© Daici Ano
The only strong request from client was that all rooms should be oriented to the south. Kai-city, where they have harsh winter, is in Kofu basin, which is located in central part of Japan.
© Daici Ano
We realized that people who lives in the area has incomparably more longing than we have in Tokyo. According to site regulations, it is possible to stack all rooms simply vertically and build a 3-story house. But we think it is not a good solution, since it will weaken relations among family who occupies each floor, though the family has two small children. And it must be a coercive volume compared with surrounding two-story houses.
Plan
Thus, we designed the volume as a terraced shape in which all rooms face south though the floors still keep horizontally connections. The volume consists of, from lower level, a living room connecting with front yard, a gallery / r...
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