Min'nanoie
Four laps recessed from the road it was flagpole-shaped site surrounded by the adjacent land. But between the building each other to try and adjacent land standing in local and if there is a missing of spread, it was considered than can be eliminated the sense of stagnation with the site by utilizing there well.
The Fukinuki middle planted a tree that Fraxinus griffithii a slit-shaped window, that was to gaze comes off all the way to the tip, it was so space than the actual area is felt much larger. Part and both sides of the wall with a small window, such as the tower, there when it also looks like a separate building that surrounds the small square in the city, coupled with gray bricks that lead from the outside on the terrace, in the house We are creating a magical atmosphere, such as that containing it is to also outside.
This blow-by arranging the room so as to surround, and at the same time and can feel familiar the nature of light and wind and seasonal transience, has created a rich relationship of the family that changes for each scene of life.
The plot is wedged between houses in every direction. To escape the claustrophobic living situation in the city, we tried to extend our consciousness beyond the borders of this physically tiny site. The project's name, "MINNA NO IE" (Everyone's House), suggests that the house has no strict borders.
In Japanese residential district, we have to leave at least 50cm gap between neighboring plots. To make openings towards those void spaces carefully, we can feel the house much larger than its floor area of 54 square-meters.
The 6-meters-high garden room in the middle of the house brings a sense of outdoors with its grey brick floor. When you enter the house, you may feel as if you are back to outside. You may feel as if you would be in a small park in a city somewhere. But the next moment, you will feel the space as interior, where the occupants spend their daily lives. It's this co-existence that gives the house its unique atmosphere.
Each small room has an open connection with the garden room, no doors at all. The void space works as a catalyst between these spaces and creates variety of relationships among its occupants.
