The site is located in a neighborhood where many breweries maintain the good old traditional Japanese way calcined gypsum walls and cedar wood.
In winter, the season of sake, a cloud of steam coming out of the red-brick chimneys of the brewery and the smell of love bursts in the air.
Fence are made of charred cedar. This is the treatment of three sides of the struggle to maintain the privacy of a house adjacent to the east, north and south of the public parking area.
West side of the house is adjoining to traditional road boundaries of old japanese houses and stores for beer with facades of white stucco. The house is open the way to blend into the scene, even if the trees can be planted in the future.
So the house is located between the modernity of today's urban traffic and a traditional Japanese tale.
Estructural works:
Steel-frame structure was used for first and second levels because these levels has a higher concentration of efforts. The third layer, by contrast, uses the method of wood frame construction that was developed from traditional Japanese.
Layer structure of first and second are characterized by the use of seamless steel • φ100 ㎜ ㎜ andφ60 φ140 The first layer of steel tubes for ㎜ second layer, which are oblique angles.
In Japan, earthquake country, the diameters of the pillars tend to be large to withstand the force of the earthquake and the installation of load-bearing walls support tends to be a common practice. The frame is calculated by assuming the enormous force of resistance of the earthquake that does not exist in everyday life. However, the columns of very small diameter can withstand the vertical and horizontal, at the same time when tilted and positioned correctly. When this formula is, the liquidation of a large force or the method of the conventional structure is in the air as naturally as the room above the trees.
Planning:
The house consists of three layers of different types of space. Viewed from the road, the first layer is a black box, the second layer with thin steel columns drilling oblique empty space and the third level of random black box floating above the tympanum.
In the first layer, there is no Japanese input conventional take off their shoes, but a lobby paved with bricks of sand asphalt pad that leads directly to all the other rooms, master bedroom, hall bath mat, and spiral staircases to the upper layers. Entrance, tatami room and bedroom are separated by sliding doors, and when fully opened, the first layer becomes almost abroad. The bricks were paved mattress in the lobby to make a semi-outdoor / semi-domestic space in terms of materials and the nature of space that gradually leads to more private space.
From the hall, partly covered by translucent FRP ladder passes through the second layer of vacuum, and leads directly to the third level. Stairwell is covered with FRP in the second layer and the light can only be taken by the stairs. It acts as a "light well" during the day and diffuses the light to the first layer and the third.
In the third level living room, dining room and kitchen. On the floor there are two openings, one of the stairs to the first layer and the other on the second level, exclusive access to open space for the stairs. The third layer is the structure of wood beams and exposed wood, and all interlock groove. This is an enclosed space like the nests with a window to the north and south of the small round windows.
Down the stairs to the third level leads to a 360-degree view of the glass walls on the second layer, which is similar to that outdoors. There are many bungalows in the surrounding area and views of the second layer extends over a distance brewery tanks, town houses and brick chimneys. The second layer, open and transparent, is visibly accessible from the outside, but at least physically accessible and profound.
Each level of the house has varying degrees of accessibility development visible, physical and social environment from the outside that can not be measured simply by the composition of three layers. The complexity of relationships within the house offers many options for relations with the company.
