Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has reworked an outdated wood constructing right into a warm-toned residence and public restaurant named Home in Hayashisaki Matsue Seaside.
Positioned on a coastal road in Akashi in southern Japan, the mixed-use house was constructed inside a 50-year-old constructing for an area designer and contains a curry restaurant in addition to residential and dealing areas.
Designed to replicate conventional Japanese dwellings, the house and restaurant are contained inside a wood constructing that was beforehand darkish and separated.
Through the renovation, Akio Isshiki Architects aimed to pair present parts with trendy options to replicate the mixed-use nature of the undertaking.
“The home was divided into small rooms, slim and darkish,” studio founder Akio Isshiki advised Dezeen.
“It was very outdated and broken, however happily the carpenter had performed job, there have been no leaks, and the construction was strong.”
Accessed from the roadside, a sequence of round stones type a path that leads by means of the planted entrance backyard and curves to increase alongside the entrance of the constructing, offering entry to the ground-floor restaurant.
Right here, a stepped sheltered porch options exterior seating and is separated from the inside house by a large sliding glass door set in a timber body, which provides views into the backyard and may be absolutely opened to attach the eating house to the surface.
Inside, the ground has been coated with darkish tiles knowledgeable by the historical past of the realm, which was previously a big tile producer.
“These tiles had been handcrafted one after the other by tile craftsmen in Awaji, with the picture of lava stone pavements seen in cities in Central and South America superimposed on the feel and edge form,” stated the studio.
Wood furnishings, together with bespoke D-shaped chairs designed by the studio and created by an area woodworker, are organized all through the eating house on the entrance of the constructing.
“To make sure stability even on uneven flooring, three legs are used as a base for the chairs, and the legs are fabricated from a thick materials in order that they don’t match within the joints of the Kawara tiles,” stated Isshiki.
“I aimed for a primitive design with an unknown nationality, with as easy and crude a composition as doable.”
Separated from the primary house by an earth-toned counter, the kitchen is tucked into one aspect of the eating room and options partitions clad in wood panels and white tiles, together with a lighting fixture fashioned from two circles that hangs within the street-facing window.
A Japanese shoji display on the finish of the eating room is the primary of a sequence of versatile partitions all through the house that may be pulled out to offer separation between the areas.
“Aware of the tropics and nostalgia, we put nets that seem like mosquito nets and sudare blinds on the shoji screens,” stated the studio. “The sleek plans created by imperfect partitions comparable to shoji and fusuma are typical of historical Japanese structure.”
“On this home, the place cultures, nationalities, occasions, and varied different issues are mixed, I believed it will be acceptable to have the areas partially blended in order that they may really feel the presence of one another, moderately than being completely partitioned when it comes to utilization,” it continued.
Constructed on a raised timber platform, the remainder of the bottom ground holds personal rooms for the shopper, that are divided by shoji screens, together with a conventional Japanese room that opens onto a backyard.
A house workplace borders the eating house, the place a central black ladder results in the ground above, whereas a bed room, toilet and utility room department from the opposite aspect of the hall.
Upstairs, the studio added an open association of eating and residing areas with warm-toned surfaces together with a crimson wall and darkish wood beams that work together with the house’s authentic rustic roof construction.
“The wall on the second ground is a scraped wall blended with crimson iron oxide and completed by a plasterer from Awaji,” stated Isshiki. “That is an try to include the colorful partitions of every nation into structure in a Japanese context.”
Different Japanese houses just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a Tokyo residence unfold throughout two stacked volumes and a concrete residence supported by a single column on Japan’s Okinawa Island.
The images is by Yosuke Ohtake.
