싱글 매트리스 사이즈, 베드룸으로 이루어진 고야산 게스트하우스는 일본 캡슐호텔과 게스트하우스가 합성된 숙박시설로 미니멀 건축이 전달하는 간결함을 제대로 보여준다. 그레이 메탈판넬로 이루어진 외부마감과는 상반된 백색공간은 슬림한 백색기둥과 2x4 우드빔의 가구식 구조로 간결하면서도 유연한 공간을 생성한다. 열주를 따라 연속된 2개층 높이의 중앙복도는 거실과 식당을 구분하는 동시에 각각 측면에 위치한 베드룸을 연결한다. 2층 침대가 구비된 침실의 상부에는 거주자의 커뮤니티 확장 및 개인 사생활 보호를 위해 복도로 열리는 작은 문을 디자인 한다. 캡슐호텔의 장점; 프라이버시 확보와 게스트 하우스, 도미토리의 장점; 커뮤니티 증대를 위한 숙박시설로 제공된다.
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Bedrooms the size of a single mattress are slotted two-high into the walls of this wooden guesthouse in Japan by Alphaville Architects, which takes its cues from capsule hotels.
Behind a grey corrugated-metal facade, slim white columns were used by Kyoto studio Alphaville Architects to define the floor plan of the Koyasan Guesthouse.
Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.
The rows of two-by-four wooden beams are set at regular intervals, separating a living and dining area from a double-height hallway that runs through the centre of the building and offers access to the small sleeping spaces.
Hatches open into these bedroom chambers, which have been stacked on top of each other into cavities in the walls – one at ground level and one below the rafters.
Short horizontal rungs set between the timber down-posts form inbuilt ladders that allow guests to access the top bunks.
"Each single room directly faces a hall so that you can choose proper distance with other guests ensuring the privacy," said the team.
The architects designed the guesthouse for visitors to the UNESCO world heritage site of Koyasan, a temple of the Shingon Buddhism sect that was founded 1,200 years ago.
"It is a mixture of a Japanese capsule-type hotel in which the privacy is well protected, and a dormitory in which the communication among the guests is active," said the architects, who also designed a house with slanted concrete walls in Osaka.
The living room features a sloping ceiling that follow the angle of the roof and a black wood-burning stove with a flue that rises up into the exposed ceiling rafters.
Narrow clerestory windows run along one wall, bridging a hip in the roof structure, and a kitchen and breakfast bar sit across the concrete-floored hall.
"We make use of the subtle light from far above through the wooden structure, in tribute to traditional Japanese architecture," added the architects.
The open framework of the building will allow the client to adapt it as the requirements change.
"The simple composition of the space allow not only owner of this guesthouse but also guests to maintain, modify and keep on using this architecture for a long time," added the team.
from dezeen