The site is located on the rolling hills of Usuki-city in Oita Prefecture.

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Architects: Kenta Eto Architects

Location: Usuki, Japan

Structural Design: Yousuke Kimura

Area: 98.12 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano

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Text description provided by the architects. The site is located on the rolling hills of Usuki-city in Oita Prefecture.In the vicinity, there are scattered fields and houses, and the landscape of mountainous terrain of about 600 meters high continues on the south side. In the conception process, I thought to make use of ?difference in level / viewpoint of environment / topography? going down from the mountains in the south to the plain, rising again from the plain to the north side hill where the site is located.In addition, I thought about the shape that the building volume does not disturb the beautiful landscape that spreads all four points of the compass, and the shape that is on the extension of the environment and topography.
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The building appears as a slope that is neither a roof nor a wall.A slope of gradient 4.5 / 10 (about 24 degrees) allows a person to climb directly from the ground line (GL). You can feel the viewpoint of the level difference with a sense of movement different from the stair space, and also climb up slowly and move ...