This is a house for a married couple and their child. Its site is located in a residential area facing the school route that school children and wives of the neighbourhood pass.

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Architects: Studio Velocity

Location: Japan

Architects In Charge: Kentaro Kurihara, Miho Iwatsuki, Ryusuke Suzuki

Area: 333.01 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Kentaro Kurihara

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Text description provided by the architects. This is a house for a married couple and their child. Its site is located in a residential area facing the school route that school children and wives of the neighbourhood pass.This area has gentle hills. Many sites have developed the flat ground by heaping up soil, therefore there are no connections between the natural typography of the road and the flattened sites.
© Kentaro Kurihara

Most of the nearby houses are surrounded by walls and have a parking lot at the road side along the site.The flat site, the wall and parking lot have made the distance more than necessary between living space and the town.

© Kentaro Kurihara

I connected the landscape and the road. I built six roofs in HP shell which lie one on top of another to the landscape.I designed each of the roofs so that eaves become high to center of the site, and low to the outside. In the center a bright open living space is created, and the outside addresses the surr...