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House in Hiro by Suppose Design Office
Our current featured architects Suppose Design Office of Japan have designed a residence in Hiroshima with two rooms that appear to be outdoors.
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The house, located on a busy commercial street, aims to satisfy the clients wish for bright gardens in an area where there are none.
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The sunlit rooms use natural materials and finishes in an effort to bring a sense of the garden indoors.
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Here's more information from the architects:
House in Hiro
This spacious house is a home that has two gardens.
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The site is located in a shopping district alongside the main highway, a harsh place to satisfy the demands of a client desiring a home with bright gardens.
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There are no outdoor gardens here, so we decided to plan out the kind of place that you could almost call a real garden, by bringing to the indoors materials that evoke - elements of the outdoors - garden-like elements such as light and raw materials.
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By setting up garden rooms that at first sight make you feel as if you are in a real outdoor garden - despite being indoors - we have created a distinction between the indoors and outdoors.
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By putting characteristically "outdoor" things such as plants and bicycles in the rooms, as well as books, artwork, and pianos, we have portrayed a life in which these elements are all mingled.
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We struggled to achieve this new outdoors-like form by changing the way we looked at things just a little bit, by unconsciously recognizing these "inside and outside" elements.
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The garden rooms, where the indoors and outdoors mingle, show that rather than being a home that cannot allow the sort of metamorphosis it has seen thus far, this home is comfortable with these changes.
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building site : Hiro, Kure city, Hiroshima, JAPAN
principal use : personal house
structure : Reinforced Concrete, 2 storey
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site area : 78.34㎡
building site : 37.39㎡
total floor area : 66.46㎡
(1F : 36.33㎡ 2F : 30.13㎡)
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