Fuente: Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier
Fotografía: Koji Sakai
A small house settled on the border of residential area close to Sapporo city central and the forest spreads to the west of Mt. Moiwa. Since the site level is lower than the front road, access to the building across the bridge connects to the second floor. The house has a form close to the cube, with a triangular shape cut out on the east side. The large glassed openings are placed in this triangular cut out space, and also in the atrium facing the deep forest on the southeast. Having the openings only in these area, and also having various light, differences in floor levels and ceiling heights, all the elements which cause many actions in this house are concentrated in this corner. Our goal was to design a house, where the family come together around this complex phenomenon created by these elements, inside this simple form space.
Specifically, overwrapping a primary mechanism of light itself with some secondary phase components appealing to us visually and auditory, and incorporating a confrontation with nature from various angles of eye level such as the birds in the sky and flowers on the ground, which comes from the floor level difference by related to the form of this site.
