This is an urban house surrounded by tall buildings on all sides except for the northeast facing a street. The issue was how to bring light into the interior, to open the enclosed volume and to develop scenery within it while avoiding looks from the neighborhood. There rises a white illuminated “hill” in the house. Its slope tilting to the southwest receives and reflects sun light onto the interior. The “hill” that can be seen from all the rooms but never be reached by anyone, is a place shared in our consciousness belonging to nobody. It is this place that induces another story in our mind beside the everyday life of our own.
a hill on a house
Architecture
- Title
- a hill on a house
- Date
- 2005.02 - 2006.06
- For
- residential
- At
Tokyo
- Size
- 267㎡
- Status
- Completed
- Publications
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AXIS August 2014
arredamento mimarlik July 2014
CENTURION Winter 2013
Kenchiku Knowledge Special Edition October 2012
BVD October 2010
HOME Portrait 2010
KJ Construction Journal December 2008
Y08 The Skira Yearbook of World Architecture
DETAIL JAPAN September 2008
de Architect March 2008
design adDict 2 December 2007
ARCHITECT BOX Vol.01 October 2007
MARK August 2007
SHOTENKENCHIKU July 2007
DTPWORLD May 2007
Casa BRUTUS April 2007
Architecture Dialogue April 2007
Detail Japan
THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW December 2006
Loosely Connected Society November 2006
Casa BRUTUS November 2006
JAPAN 2006 ARCHILAB November 2006
ViVOCOLOR October 2006
archilab October 2006
GA HOUSE94 July 2006
HUGE W May 2006
Kensetsu Tsushin Shinbun September 15, 2005