The ever opened building

Go to the ideal to be connected to the outside

The suggestion of a weekend house pushing forward search for site and the design of the building at the same time. The place to stay on a good day of the climate of the spring or autumn, Like "Because it is fine today", The feeling that I take down a hood, and want to go with a convertible. This house is usable for such a feeling.

The space of the building that be expressed with "The building which is connected to the outside" or "Inside space like a garden" cannot go over one piece of wall partitioning off the outside and the room, even if a device of the opening. The glass does not have presence but partitions off the inside and the outside. It may be said that it is cruel materials in this meaning. "Can I make space connected to the outside without any discrimination?" I began a design toward one ideal.

This building has shape that it seems to be the muzzle which it pushed out to a cliff, but a part of the tip does not have a wall, and room space is not closed. I use the outside space such as a slim cave as a room. This space is largely dependent upon the weather or, the season, a state of the outside atmosphere, but this architecture is, as how to spend weekend, to enjoy plain nature in form unlike camping.

For slim form, plain nature weakens as go to the depths, and it becomes rare that paper is flown by wind or a floor is got wet by rain, so I can use the depths in the same way as a normal room. A mosquito net is hung in the bed, soil is sprinkled, and grass grows on the floor of the tip of the room, midway of the cave is provided with the curtain made with stainless steel mesh for crime prevention. The transparency of the glass of the outer wall falls.

When I think, the most of historic building like the Pantheon or the Barcelona pavilion and Japanese traditional buildings were not completely cut with the outside. The underpass space where a homeless person lives in is outside space, too. The space where the animals and plants except the human being live in is too. There are a roof and a wall, so the possibility that "I can live somehow though it is the outside" is born.

When I think of natural pleasure to see a cabbage butterfly flies in the room or to hear the song of the narcissus flycatcher immediately therein the room, I can do readiness to take the side of natural strictness represented by wind or rain.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Design : 2007.09 -