A single concrete column helps the partitions and roof of this home by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a versatile inside that may be opened as much as the encircling panorama.
Named One-Legged Home, the house sits on a small hill overlooking the coast of Okinawa and was designed for a shopper wanting “a transparent view to the ocean and wind flowing via all day lengthy”, stated IGArchitects.
The Saitama-based studio organised the concrete constructing round a single, giant column at its centre, which allowed its envelope to be wrapped with wood-framed, sliding glass doorways.
“Like an opened umbrella, the roof and partitions [of the home] are prolonged from the one column,” defined IGArchitects. “The stable construction appears like it’s floating.”
Inside, One-Legged Home is designed as a single open house, which ensures its operate will be simply modified in future if desired.
The central column separates a kitchen space from a bed room and dwelling areas, whereas a rest room is closed off for privateness with easy white curtains.
Above, the roof of the house is wrapped by a wall of board-marked concrete, which extends upwards to create a parapet for a rooftop terrace and downwards to dam glare from direct daylight within the interiors.
“Direct daylight in the summertime doesn’t penetrate inside, and the ocean breeze flows via the house when the home windows are opened, which makes the usage of air con pointless,” stated IGArchitects.
The place One-Legged Home faces again in direction of different residential properties to the south, it has been completed with wood panels and clerestory home windows to offer privateness within the sleeping space.
“Despite the fact that the structure has only one column within the centre, it provides the sensation of ‘additional house’, therefore the column is sort of a giant wall,” stated the studio.
“The home aimed to have a versatile construction that may very well be tailored to operate aside from a residence, and a power that may not be affected with different conditions,” it continued.
When opened, the northern facet of One-Legged Home leads out onto a rock-covered patio surrounding the constructing. This patio is lined with areas of planting and options an exterior concrete staircase main as much as a roof terrace.
Different Japanese homes lately featured on Dezeen embody a house in Tokyo by Cubo Design Architects that references conventional Japanese craft and an angular concrete villa in Minamiboso Metropolis by Takeshi Hirobe Architects.
The images is courtesy of IGArchitects.
