The house melts in the city

Here is the city, however, here is not the full artificial environment, there is the cracked road pavement, the spontaneous gap and etc. I want to create the habitation for living in the city without sacrificing the attractiveness and complexity of this place which is the co-existence of man-made things and nature things in a mess. Like the dandelion blooming on the asphalt, I think through the architecture how to tangle or to melt with the city. I walled and roofed the back street. Thereby the garden is protected from the rain and having the more continuity with inner space. The roof at various heights creates the characters in the small site, the blight place, the dim corner, the protected niche from wind, the fully exposed area from outside and more. From around your foot to the high buildings right overhead, to put yourself in the comfortableness of wide range environment, the imagination fly away to everywhere. Like walking around the neighborhood, the life in here will be fully with many kind of discoveries.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Project team : Ishimori Daido Gunji Emi Negishi Akira

Collaboration : Akira Suzuki／ASA

Design : 2013.05 - 2013.06