Comments on: House in Jigozen by Suppose Design Office

By: yrag

yrag — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:53:28 +0000

Mmm . . . For my taste, I Suppose Not.

By: Salvadore

Salvadore — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:50:34 +0000

I would really like to live in this house. It makes u feel happy. It has the optimist expresion of a modest amish from the future. It just smiles!

By: vico

vico — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:17:02 +0000

who would ever even think of having a bathroom wide opened on the kitchen/dinig/living ?
i agree the interior spaces are quite intersting and well thought, like the idea of a non/multi-functionnal extra space on the first floor and the periperical unmaterialized corridor, all good ideas (and the windows are unexpectedly comfortable)
but i totally have trouble with the organisation : have a look at the plans… 1 bedroom for 3 persons, an open bathroom in the kitchen at the upper floor of the bathroom… i just dont understand the concept and wonder why the bathroom isnt on the lower floor in the little space left
would be so much more logical and restauring the privacy
your opinion ?

By: Justin Groot

Justin Groot — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:53:18 +0000

Designed to feel safe during storms, it’s apt that the weakest part of the building, it’s windows, are shaped like conventional houses (which are weak during storms). In the context of this unconventional house typology, the pitched roof house is foreign. In the context of a storm resistant house, large glass panes are foreign. That’s my take on why the windows are shaped the way they are.

Is this house storm resistant? If you’ve ever been through a typhoon, you’ll probably say yes straight away. As a child (in Hong Kong), I wasn’t allowed in any room with windows during a typhoon, due to the risk of them blowing in and shattering. This design, as stated in the blurb, allows for people to use spaces during a typhoon, without being in danger.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:39:50 +0000

Wow, these interiors are amazing. I would like to see a diagram illustrating this ‘new’ construction method, though. All they say is that they placed the posts diagonally, but what does that look like?

I kind of wish the front yard didn’t look like a hostile desert. Even if they just filled it with gravel it’d be a lot nicer

By: michael

michael — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:48:20 +0000

i like it! Imagine curtains in the window held back by a strap at mid-height on each side

By: yimyim

yimyim — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:05:55 +0000

wonderful experiment! The internal play of spaces is nice…
I have no issues with the facade as others do. The project is complete in its attempt and the facade enforces this.
Actually the only issue I might have is one of ‘noise’, the images are utterly silent -hard to image it ‘alive’.
Great work.

By: Oddjob

Oddjob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:43:13 +0000

This is the most ugly facade I could imagine. On this note: good job!

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:34:40 +0000

Gosh the shape of this windows… it looks like we’re gonna see EVERYTHING made with that stupid shape in the next one year!
why design is so uniform sometimes?

By: mcmlxix

mcmlxix — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:26:32 +0000

Not fond of the outterior. The fenestration is gimmicky and the hardscaped yard oppressive and seriously under utilized space, unless the residents are very much into bocce or sunning themselves on cinders.

The interior is amazing…refined, elegant…spaces within spaces. Hierarchy through materiality.