House I28. Feb2014
Completed in octomber 2013, this house for a family of three persons is located in an area of houses and fields spreading in Tochigi, Japan.
"We intended to design the house in which the life is enveloped and connected to the surroundings by the composition of enclosure and division." - Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects
Photos by Fumihiko Ikemoto
via Domus
"Each life space is divided by the stone wall mined locally and by the radiated wall supporting big roof. Because the site is located at the end of a blind alley, it has atmosphere of comfortable deep-set. Moreover it has kind of openness. We can have glimpse of gardens, fields and laundries in next houses. People have good relationship and make the usual greetings over the gardens and come to see stepping over the stone fences in this area."---
"This house is not so much just a box as an enclosure. In some place the enclosure plays a role as exterior wall having an entrance, in other place as the stone fence having view to surroundings. The interior walls spread radially in the deformed enclosure. The family will live with irregular distance getting together, falling away and getting behind in that radiated walls. This radiated walls supporting big roof make different size of void and make the enveloped space with arch opening in the center of house. The slope of big roof and the deformed enclosure accentuate space of perspective. We can have the view point of spreading from the center at the same time leading to the center." ---
"We want to look into a bright future by architecture for all." - Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects is an office practicing architecture and urbanism, based in Tokyo.
Hiroyuki Shinozaki was born in 1976 in Tochigi, Japan. In 2000 he graduated from Kyoto Institute of Technology. In 2002 completed a master in fine arts and music at Tokyo National University and started to work in Toyo Ito's office of architecture.
In 2009 he established Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects
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