Here’s another project by Toyko company Hiroyuki Tanaka Architects, who designed the House in Hiyoshi in our earlier story.
They completed House in Sagamino, a private residence in Kanagawa, Japan, in 2007.
The design concept was to connect the rooms through openings in the internal walls.
Coloured lights shine through the openings, alerting occupants to the presence of family members in other rooms of the house when the beam is obstructed.
Photography by Takumi Ota.
The following text is a description from the architects:
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The site for the house was outside Tokyo; a vast, featureless plot. To plan the design we studied the context and the client’s way of life.
Our concept was to connect the rooms by small windows in the walls.
We tried to change the relations between spaces. The family can sense someone in the next room by colours changing with natural light.
Please don’t expect to find that we intended to design the walls. We just wanted to find the new relationships between man and space.
But we do accept that slight diffusing light is beautiful even for the small spaces.
Credits:
Project name : House in Sagamino
Architect: Hiroyuki Tanaka Architects
Date: 2007
Area: 73sqm
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Photography: Takumi Ota
Award: National residential lighting award 2008
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Posted by Rachael Sykes
February 21st, 2009 at 9:41 am
like the concept of the colored window…color bleeds to he white wall…nice…
February 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Love it
February 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
the plants are a joke …
February 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I love the windows…
February 21st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
wierd and banal.
sorry.
the level of abstraction is extreme but not particularly meaningful.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I really love the embrace of diffused light and working in the context of the homeowner by the architects. In all I think it’s really cool.
Just wanted to ask if anyone knew how the colored windows are lit though, is it from the outside (in that case, it wouldn’t be lit at most times in the day when the sun isn’t in the ideal position/angle). or is it an artificial backlight to be switched on and off. The photos are so nice that it’s hard to tell.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I don’t think the photos or release properly demonstrated the concept.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
simple, beautiful idea. I wonder how the house feels at night.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:50 pm
light & crispy, good job
February 21st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
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February 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pm
beautiful! wonderful concept and wonderful execution!
bravo!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:53 am
I can hear the plants are singing.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
Japanese know how to do it nice and clean
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 am
Superb!!, white at its purest !!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 am
Looks like very normal house. Japanese has Finer feeling for detailing and de builder also loves to materialise it as it forms the condition to get another work, but but,… apart from that It looks alike a very normal house…
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 pm
this looks gorgeous to me~!
clean crisp and fresh. id love to walk through it. and i love the square shelves.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:22 am
great!! so pure
February 24th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
more than architecture it’s manufacture. i like thoes details.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
This is nice but how peoples can live here?
February 27th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Very nice modernization and reflection of Japanese philosophy and residential preferences. Well done.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I find it pretty amusing ! The rest of the world really needs Japanese culture !
I’m not saying that my house will be like this, but definitely love to see such things !