ONOU house17. Aug2012

TAGS: house, japan, frame

Inspired by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates

Onou house is build on a sloped terrain on a site with good views in all four cardinal points. Therefore the architect tried to create a house that could benefit from all the good views. The result is one volume created from the intersections of two frames, one horizontal and one vertical, each one being the module which generated the opposite facades located up and down the solpe. The interior space is a continous one, connecting in one view the upper and the lower part of the house.

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Here is ONOU house concept as told by the Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates:

"Site
As the surrounding of a site, a residence stands in a row in the north-and-south side, and the east-and-west side is a place where a comparatively good field of view."
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"Frame (outside)
For this site which has good view, we put two "frames" One is vertical frame at east. The other is horizontal frame at west. The space consists of connecting the two frames. It's a space horizontally opened while reducing height gradually and a space vertically opened while reducing a plan gradually. The "one room" is expanding vertically and horizontally."
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"One room
I have an idea that the residence should be a one room. However, the monotonous one room which can see the whole feels in many cases that there are few choices of an air and a life. So we have made "one room" which can connect family without seeing directly. This time, We proposed preparing "the boundary of air" connecting good fields of view in the east-and-west and gaining depth and density to the space."
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"Frame(inside)
Concretely, we use wooden frame which use auxiliary as window or door frame. We think wooden frame itself takes a part of specifying space boundary. It is distinguished as somewhere else at the same time the space before and behind that is connected because there is a wooden frame. It is constituted as space with moderate tolerance."
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Katsutoshi Sasaki was born in 1976 in Toyota-shi Aichi, Japan. He graduated from Kinki University and after worked at N Maeda Aterior.
From 2008 he established his own bureau: Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates.

Katsutoshi Sasaki design philosophy: Context - Contact - Communications

"It is necessary to express these answers as architecture.And, nature and architecture should mix by not only the surface but also various viewpoints."

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