By the client words ?court yard? and ?having a picnic in the house?, they have been guided plant a big tree at courtyard and architecture figure and composition snuggling up to it.

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Architects: Keitaro Muto Architects

Location: Gifu, Japan

Area: 273.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: APERTOZERO

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Text description provided by the architects. By the client words ?court yard? and ?having a picnic in the house?, they have been guided plant a big tree at courtyard and architecture figure and composition snuggling up to it.

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Project site is far from central Gifu city with field-studded though, new residential houses have been rapidly built. In general, the coherent architecture with courtyard have been designed closed spaces. But it has been tried to design that the existence of courtyard has been opened toward public with keeping protect privacy.
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In consideration of a flooded area by hazard map, inside and courtyard heights have been land up to 1.2 meters from road heights. Also it has been gently prevented the view line from road.

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The garage of road side has been built as low as possible, and green garden has been made on their roof.

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A big tree (Acer sieboldianum) was planted in center garden, three ways roofs facing the garden have been designed cone shape and the roof can...