Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this house in Osaka, Japan, with a staircase that wraps around the house's internal perimeter.
The Small House with Big Spiral Staircase has windows carefully placed and sized to capture views of the scenery beyond the adjacent train track and car park.
The staircase has been placed so that the most favourable views are enjoyed as one ascends through the house and connects three stacked boxes that divide up the internal space.
The house is on 60 square-metre site and has a studio on the ground floor, bedroom and bathroom on the first floor, and living and dining room on the second.
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Small house with big spiral staircase
This small residence is in the suburbs of Osaka on a mere 60sqm.
It is composed of an atelier for the flower arrangement on the first floor, the bedroom and bathroom on the second floor, and the living dining rooms on the third floor.
The site is surrounded by tracks and passing trains, a truck stop parking lot, and neighboring homes drawing close to the property line.
At first glance, noise, exhaust, and lines of sight make this place hard to describe as an advantageous living environment.
The theme of this residence was accepting such environs and finding a solution that makes the best of them.
Another good look at site's surroundings shows a favorable environment extending over the top of the parking lot and neighboring houses, out of the field of vision.
The atelier, which can signal what it has inside and has visitors even on the often avoided train track side, can be read spatially as a mixture of favorable and unfavorable aspects, depending on the height and orientation of the surroundings.
In that vein, in rooms that look out on favorable areas, the staircase is positioned spatially in parts that do not.
The spiral staircase and the 3 stacked boxes are complementary.
A new awareness of the surrounding exterior scenery is created as the outside appears and disappears depending on the angle from the opening in each room facing the staircase.
The spiral staircase, developed as if to wrap the building, though attached independently at each level, builds a new relationship with the city, a small house achieving a large expanse.
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Architects : Hideshi Ave / Hideshi Ave Architect and Associates
Location : Osaka,Japan
Principal use : personal house
Structure : steel structure, 3stories
Site area : 60.12 sqmBuilding area : 30.77 sqm
Total floor area : 92.31 sqm
Completion : June,2009
Structural engineer : Takashi Manda
Photo : Daici Ano
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beautiful building…. I'm hoping they saved alot by siting the house beneath power lines and besides a railroad track……….
You really have no idea about the housing conditions in Japanese cities, do you?
Feel like these guys have their minimalist game ‘in the box’ [via bag].
Wonder if this is their answer to the shortcomings of the zollverein school of management and design.
Avehideshi is the new SANAA? Are japanese houses/people so small because they don’t have kitchens?
worried for the AZN bros.
hope yall can still can eat (via no kitchen).
is Avehideshi riding the chillwave of SANAA?
It doesn't actually have a spiral staircase though? That's a bit of a let down.
I like the way the interior space interconnects.
I think the kitchen is neat, especially the counter/table and if there is not the full panoply of commercial grade stainless equipment, the owner will surely get enough to eat.
There seems to be a missing element to all these white boxes. Starts with the letter "C". Any one have a guess? …don't all speak at once.
so what do you use to cook in the kitchen? there's no oven, microwave or hob!
this seems well done, no hideous mistakes at least. maybe the levels of light are not good from those teardrop ceiling lamps.
obviously the exterior could be nicer but japanese designers never seem to care about that
Something about the composition of the interior photos and the minimal material palette makes me want to see a sideways stair to complete the M.C. Escher labyrinth look. Love the layered volumes within.
This project could be anywere
Oh and Ozmodo. Context. Contextcontextcontext. As in there is none. Ergo: This building could be anywhere.
boring, Can't Japanese Architect invent each of their own individual style. All of japanese houses look the same. White box, big and small windows with clustering organization that's it.
I appreciate the simple and extensive use of wood for the interiors. The outside is actually flat… that`s a choiche anyway, like it or not is what they chose.