The flipped ground house

The building which became the topography

The project that the house standing on, back from the major road. This site is surrounded with evergreen hedge of sasanqua or coral formation or sweet olive, and the garden is such as the private big room.

There was the talk to fill the building underground not to break the garden which the client takes 30 years and took good care of if possible, but now, it is the plan of the house to own the courtyard. Because the privacy of the garden is high, the outer wall is transparent, and the roof is planted turf same as a garden.

A roof undulates and a small hill and valley are born. I can get out of the edge of the building on the roof and can fall in the courtyard on foot. The roof incline goes inward and outward, so as I go around a building, see an open ground and a courtyard, and the scene changes rhythmically. I can see the turf of the roof of the other side over a courtyard. I want this house to be a device to enjoy a garden.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Design : 2006.10 -