ICU Architects

Private House, ISHIKAWA


courtesy of Naoyuki Nagata . ICU Architects . Photos: Kazuo Fukunaga [except last 2 photos]

‘’Chromatic environment’’
This house placed within 30 minutes from Kanazawa city. The client lives here half a week with dogs.
The site is at the end of a newly developed residential area. Woods remained slope occupies 2/3 of this site, there is a wild atmosphere.
The influence of this woods to whole the site is remarkable. The broadleaf tree woods changes own appearance dramatically through the seasons—spring fresh green, summer dark green, autumn red leaves, winter snow landscape —, we can catch a change of seasons with a color.
We wanted to spread such a chromatic metamorphose to inside and outside of this house, and connect the eyes and landscape randomly and emotionally.
























‘’Here… there… over there…’’
For example, here are three rooms. These rooms are connected, and now, light and wind from ‘’that room’’ reaches ‘’this room’’ through the ‘’next room’’ in daily life. This phenomenon don’t occur neither one room space nor mere assemble of rooms. It is new space expanse produced by each room’s combination. . It is important for this house— a few 80㎡— to be realized not size largeness but feeling of such a new expanse.

To find such a expanse, We focused the local relation between each rooms and surroundings, and divided 9m×9m square into 8 volumes with leant 3°grid, and re-compose. We planned as considered 8 each room’s height and size, the connection of each rooms, window and surroundings. Usual access is from the top of slope to the roof, because a car cannot pass the south road. This is a rare case in which we approach the house with seeing a plan. We groped for a plan that connects not only photogenic view but with many scenes around this site. Window and rooms arrangement depends on the relation between each rooms and surroundings. So each room has a different scene and various distances.

‘’Delaying space’’
The window glass and stainless panel wall reflects a color of sky and woods, and contrasts concrete’s taciturn expression. The punching of stainless panel is made by digitalized photo-image, so there is no same panel. By this, stainless panel amplify a change of light and color of surroundings to inside and outside of this house.
By these materials, this house wears a new sense of distance.
The different size rooms are not closed, tied with outside things—woods, sky, dog run, slope, terrace, a view of the sea—, or another scene through the inner window.
The consciousness moves to the next room, to the next room, —delay a climax—, and spreads to plentiful environment.



Architects: ICU architects office—
Naoyuki Nagata, principal-in-charge,
Eri Murata, Hiroco Kakei, project team
Consultants: TAPS—Masaichi Taguchi, structural
General contractor: Nagasaka gumi
Structural system: concrete
Major materials: reinforced concrete, stainless panel, exterior; concrete, plaster board, plywood, interior
Site area: 762.82㎡
Built area: 85.05㎡
Total floor area: 76.35㎡
Completion: 2009.12



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