This is the second house at the foot of Mt. Fuji. Because of deep forest, we can?t see the shape of mountain, but the south side of the site is a part of Mt. Fuji.

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Architects: Hiroki Tominaga-Atelier

Location: Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Architects In Charge: Hiroki Tominaga, Yae Fujima

Area: 112.66 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Takumi Ota

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From the architect. This is the second house at the foot of Mt. Fuji. Because of deep forest, we can?t see the shape of mountain, but the south side of the site is a part of Mt. Fuji.The Client wants to make Loft space, so we decided Shed roof which is opened to Mt.Fuji.
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On the other hand, if we chose the shed roof, heavy snow falls to the north side of the house in winter, and north entrance will be buried in snow.

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So we started redesigning the roof from regarding the Shed roof as one plate which drops snow and rain. We fixed the slant of the roof, but fold it In a longitudinal direction, to redesign how to drop snow and rain.

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Approach terrace penetrates into the house volume and it divides this house to two volumes.

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The shed roof is folded in the mountain fold over this entrance approach, so snow and rain fall beside...