House of window side

Hey, there is the outside immediately there

I had stay in the small hut (like under figure; the size of the room is 2730mm×1820mm) for three years. The wall is made with one piece of plywood, and it is the building that sounds of rain, moonlight, birdsong enter directly inside. It is hot in summer and cold in winter. I feel plopping down on the grass as I close my eyes, and I think of the outside in big existence and very soon. That hut was bedroom, but this project is that I enlarged experience that "the outside is close" to a living room and a store with comfort.

A store combination house standing on bedroom suburb. I arrange some volume that is small like the whole room seems to be the side of the window, and life consists by go and come the small space. A big tree as completely cover the small volume is planted on the center of the site. The branches and leaves which opened become a natural umbrella hanging over the site and protect a building and a garden from rain and a direct streamer.

The scenery of the window, that sunlight filtering through trees shake, leads all over the building, I can touch a flower of the garden if I grow a hand. It is such a building next door to outside.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Design : 2008.02 -