Japanese studio Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a weekend house in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, where two gabled structures are separated by a walled courtyard.
The house is divided into two parts with a double-height open-plan room on one side of the courtyard, and the bathroom and storage space on the other.
The bedroom, kitchen and dining room are all in one room, with a free-standing wall creating a partition.
Photographs are by Kazunori Fujimoto.
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House in Nasu
This is a weekend house built in the area height of above sea level 550m, in Nasu-town, Tochigi Prefecture.
Though in the resort town, the road and the neighbor houses are near by the site, and it seems difficult to keep a privacy.
So we aimed to make an indoor space like a Scandinavian soft interiors instead of the room open directly to the outside .
The surrounding's tall trees blur the outline of the house, and the interior, they give the abstract light, shade, and many of colors.
It is one-room space that has two big windows and a concrete wall.
By the two windows the room connected to the outside environment.
Closing the white curtains, all symbols as "house" are hidden, and the color and materials that can be seen are limited, still more, the abstract space is filled calm atmosphere.
The inside concrete wall like "monolith" divide the space generously, and put the life in order.
Location: Nasu, Tochigi, Japan
Main use: weekend house
Site area: 504m2
Building area: 85.44m2
Total floor area: 85.44m2
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Design term: 2009
Construction term: 2010
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well done work! too simple and too usefull but seems too cold~
cold and uninviting architecture – not somewhere I could ever imagine spending my weekends.
I have seen russian prisons with more intimacy and warmth.
Incredible! I love this with all my heart! And that wall inside the house is absolutley perfect!
Minimal as the ultimate ornment. This is a week end house for a family of monk samurai or ninja priests. It could be in a bubble shape of concrete, it would be the same.
One could imply an occupant whose weekday life is immersed in a roiling culture
of urban Japan. In which case the design makes perfect sense. Excellent!
White washed walls and raw concrete can be beautiful but they are not a project by themselves. An awkwardly furnished open plan, and an exterior that looks suburban and overly large for what it holds. This project is utterly uninteresting except for the question: who is this house built for? Is it for a couple? If so, why are there two single beds? Is this the ultimate getaway for the dysfunctional couple, where they can both sit at the dinner table in silence, in an empty room, water dripping somewhere in the distance…..
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how does one do a concrete roof like this?
what do you do about impermeabilization and insulation?
sadly it does remind me of a concentration camp, And i would not want to live in one of those.
I absolutely love this building! I’m currently working on a project in university. I am designing a concrete staircase, but like to attach it to a free standing non-load-bearing wall. Is this possible? And if so how? :s
Thank you!