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Being Distant / Connected- Numerous Tones in between

-Intoned Open-Plan : Architecture of “Distance”
Site is within a calm residential suburb in Maebashi, Gunma, JAPAN. Being a housing for a family of four, this is also a place to display contemporary artworks, clients' collection. Basically it is a one-room house. Though the plan is quite unique, being radially intonated, or bent, at several points. From the bent point are walls stretched towards the center of the architecture. Each spaces created between these walls have, thus, different depths and different extent of relation to other spaces. A wide range of diverse qualities of the spaces, such as composure, privacy and so on, are obtained.
-Convoluted Cavern, Drawn with One Stroke
This house could be described as a primitive housing. Tracing its history, creating architecture is none other than producing various distances. For instance, a private room is a situation where the distance is long or solid, to be separated. On the contrary, being distant yet connected generates the expanse of a space. The altering sense of distance of a person produces so-called sequence while he / she moves about the house. What we suggest here is, a new but primitive, simple architecture, which embraces diverse feeling of distance within its intoned shape.
-Advanced Simplicity
The coexisting simplicity and complexity in this architecture could be likened to those of a life organism, or a canyon where a river current chipped away over many generations. It is an advanced organic. Since each spaces of this house are separated but connected, they have profound influences on one another. The morning sun glitters the space on the east, and at the same time the shimmer pours into other spaces. And the evening glow shines the bathroom on the west, reaching as far as the study on the opposite side of the house.
-A Step Forward
The house possesses countless tones because of its continuous one-room plan. And the flow is cadenced by twelve-millimeter walls. Thus “One step” has an essential significance in this house. Making one step forward, one would suddenly see a different space of different depth, that was hidden behind the wall a moment before. A painting one was looking at would abruptly drop off from his / her view, to realize another art piece ten meter ahead. Or space ahead would gradually come into one's visual range step by step. In fact, such a mundane activity of “walking round the house” would alter the scenery sometimes successively, and sometimes drastically. Furthermore art pieces that are displayed within the house would become radiant in the changing landscape.
-Garden of Relationship
The house might be similar to alleys and Japanese garden. That is, steppingstones are usually placed at those alleyways, and the scenery keeps changing while one stepping across by the stones. The shifts could be either continuous or unexpected. Each one step renews relationship of things around. Wandering the garden and alleys, stopping here and there- experience there has a lot in common with those that can be gained in the house. Like the alleys and garden provides innumerable views, this house also yields an abundance of sceneries and views.

				T house
				location:Maebashi,Gunma,Japan site area: 144.47 sq m building area: 90.82 sq m total floor area: 90.82 sq m structure: wood; 1 story principal use: residence