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“It provides marginal space to the city” – This two-story wooden house is located in an educational area of Kanazawa City. The surrounding area features greenery and extensive public spaces, including parks, schools and a stadium. The vacant lot behind the main site is the site of a former bank dormitory, with a clear view of the stadium trees beyond. The client requested “a house with large openings to the landscape beyond the vacant land. However, the vacant land behind the site has the potential for a large building to be built in the future.”
Also, the driveway is a T-junction, so there are places where the line of sight goes to the back of the house. Therefore, we decided to build a large terrace, which was another request, in a position that would connect the open landscape beyond the vacant lot with the opening of the main street T-junction and open the living room through the terrace . When looking at the building from the T-junction of the main street, the terrace, which looks like a large cavity in the building, creates a blank space in the congested residential area, allowing the view to pass towards the greenery and sky of the stadium, which is located just behind the residential area. In a landscape where houses are side by side, the large airspace of the terrace highlights the uniqueness of the surrounding environment.
So that the owner, a physiotherapist, can run his own business in the future, the first floor has a dirt floor with a long horizontal opening to the main street, a space for treatment, a window environment with a good view from the exterior, and a bedroom and a water room that guarantee privacy concentrated in the rear. The ceiling is kept low to create a relaxed atmosphere in this private space, and horizontal windows are used to emphasize the flat length of the building, creating an elongated transverse composition. The second floor is a spacious and open one-room house with a large bay window and high ceilings, which can be used as an integral part of the terrace.
The terrace is roofed with a large roof that is continuous with the LDK, making it an easy-to-use outdoor space even in the Hokuriku region, which has heavy rain and snowfall, and a snow-free roof is adopted, which is common in Housing Hokkaido. The main openings on the first and second floors rotate 90 degrees to change the way light enters the space, the view and the connection with the outside when moving between the upper and lower floors.
Although this is a clear two-story structure, it is not a superficial manipulation but an attempt to design a generous place that differentiates between the upper and lower floors through architectural techniques such as the arrangement of terraces, differences in the proportions of the rooms, and the composition and orientation of the openings.
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