우리의 클라이언트는 아버지를 위한 2층짜리 목조 주택의 리노베이션을 의뢰했다. 이 집에서 초등학교 시절을 보낸 클라이언트는 그 이후로 오랫동안 이 집을 임대해 주었다. 주택은 제한된 공간 내에서 최대한 많은 개인 방을 제공하도록 디자인하였다. 게다가 디자인은 아버지의 지시 하에 건축하도록 하였고, 아버지의 강력한 의견들이 집 전체에 영향을 미칠 수 있도록 했다. 그러한 뜻으로, 각 방에는 서로 다른 취향들이 반영되었는데, 독창적인 디테일과 특이한 모양의 창문들이 그것이었다. 집에 대한 ‘애정’이 곳곳에 느껴지는데, 이러한 ‘애정’을 집 내에 표현될 수 있도록 구성하였다.
제한된 예산 때문에 기존의 창들을 완전히 변경할 수는 없었기에, 대신, 각각 독창적인 창틀 프레임을 만들었고, 예술작품의 하나 인냥 새롭게 구성을 시켰다. 일층과 이층 벽은 연계되어 있는 ‘텅빈’ 방들이 닫힌 문 뒤로 구분될 수 있도록 펀칭을 뚫었다. 이러한 ‘텅빈’ 방들은 또한 자연 채광을 열린 문을 통해 자연스럽게 분포될 수 있게 하는 역할을 하기도 한다.
Our client took over this 2-story wooden house from his father and commissioned us to work on the renovation. The client lived in this house during his elementary school days, and it had been rented for a long time afterwards. It was built during the time of social and population growth when nobody imagined current social issues such as “vacancy” resulted from population decline would arise. The house was designed to provide as many private rooms as possible within the limited space. In addition, the design was executed by an architect under his father’s directions, and his father’s strong intentions were reflected all over the house. Each room had a different taste, with particular details and uniquely shaped windows. Accumulation of such strong intentions or “love” for the house felt a bit too heavy. In order to alleviate such heaviness, we removed some of spacial components, sorted out some components with common characters, and created a sense of integrity- which is a new form of “love” - we intend to present in this house.
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Architects: Schemata Architects, Jo Nagasaka
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Location: Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
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Design Team: Reina Sakaguchi
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Construction: TANK
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Area: 116.0 sqm
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Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Kenta Hasegawa
We could not modify the existing windows, due to the limited budget.
Instead we framed each unique window with an interior wall,
re-configuring it like a piece of artwork. And we punched out a floor of
a second floor room to create a “void” connecting all rooms which had
been separated behind closed doors. The “void” mediates between the
first floor, the mezzanine, and the second floor, re-configuring spatial
relationships throughout the house. The “void” also functions as a
light well distributing the natural light through openings on the south
wall.
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