Mountainside House Design by Shun Hirayama Architecture in Japan
Shun Hirayama Architecture Mountainside House
The Residences is located in Kanagawa, Japan on a mountainside that overviews a sea and a city. Construction Period in 2008-2009 and designed by Local Architects Shun Hirayama Architecture. The concept is “Taking a walk on a hillside or feel like so even inside the house”. Firstly, The architect started to define what kind of places should be there on the hill and then images of four living places were formed: a kitchen and a dining space near a road that becomes an approach, a living space at a good view point, bedrooms at positions to look out the hill, a bathroom at an airy location, and so on. After that, they put these places to individual volumes, converted them to wooden masses and shaped them, conforming to each site shape and condition, as if carving sculpture. The lateral of the road and the north surface are positioned parallel to the site boundaries, and the east surface, where the kitchen is, is slanted toward the south in order to let light in. The face of the living space is slightly inclined toward the north, so as to avoid seeing the neighborhood’s building. As a result, gradually overlapping each other, the four masses were formed into one shape.
Japan Mountainside House Design
The Architecs proceeded to create the interior spaces After the outline of the building was emerged. First of all, they produced a path that possesses comfortable straight eyesight, analogous to walking between trees. The path connects the inside and the outside, and again backs to the inside without a dead-end. A bridge becomes a part of the journey. On the finishes of the floors, various kinds of wooden floor that were chosen to match the assorted atmosphere are laid like carpets. In the center of a concrete floor that meets the ground, thin trees are arranged so as to look like a path between rice paddies.
Mountainside House Terrace Design
After that, the architect was piling up stories little by little, as if animals create their nest steadily. The traces of the thoughts and processes appear remarkably. In the interior of the building that was shaped to fit the landform, walls set in diverse angles, various ceiling heights and ten different floor levels exist and in the each space dissimilar shades live. The wind that enters inside the one-room interior space feels like they came between trees, and it feels like sitting on a natural stump, when sitting on a slight level difference.
Mountainside House Living Room Design
Mountainside House Bedroom Design
Mountainside House Kitchen Design
Mountainside House Dining Room Design
Mountainside House Bathroom Design
Balcony Design by Shun Hirayama Architecture
Mountainside House Landscape
First Floor Plan of Mountainside House
Second Floor Plan of Mountainside House
The Mountainside House Design Photograph above are by Daici Ano, Katsuhisa Kida-FOTOTECA & Shun Hirayama. Via Archdaily.
Tags: Balcony Design, Bathroom Design, Bedroom Design, Dining Room Design, First Floor Plan, House Design Photograph, Japan Mountainside House, Kitchen Design, Living Room Design, Mountainside House Landscape, Second Floor Plan, Shun Hirayama Architecture, Terrace Design, wooden floor
August 27th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
The idea of using real trees to build a house, even structure is a good way to design eco friendly houses. But to some extent, it doesnt fit the need of really using real trees in the building. It seems like, you are living in an undeveloped area.
Branches spread everywhere in house, doesnt seem neat.
They still couldve been used, by maybe polishing the wood, or making it
seem to ‘fit in’, with the surroundings.