House in Minami-karuizawa 2017
House in Minamikaruizawa, JIA 25th Annual Architectural Selection
This villa was the first house I designed with Takeshi Ueno for my parents, who are now deceased, and it is an important building that provided me with valuable experience. I designed this villa at the same time that I was designing the IBM building in Makuhari at Taniguchi and Associates where I was working at the time.
The house was about the size of a toilet in this building, but its presence was so great that as the design progressed, I recall feeling a strange sensation as if I had become one with this architecture.
Looking at the large 1/20 scale model, he said, "This window here will let the morning sun in, so it will be a refreshing breakfast. A window on the staircase landing would let the breeze in. If we build a window on top of that, the light from the window will hit the wall and illuminate the room." As I was designing, I felt warm as if the light shone on my body, and cool as if a breeze hit my cheeks. I felt as if this architecture was an extension of myself, as if the distinction between my self and others had disappeared.
House in Minamikaruizawa, JIA 25th Annual Architectural Selection
This villa was the first house I designed with Takeshi Ueno for my parents, who are now deceased, and it is an important building that provided me with valuable experience.
I designed this villa at the same time that I was designing the IBM building in Makuhari at Taniguchi and Associates where I was working at the time.
The house was about the size of a toilet in this building, but its presence was so great that as the design progressed, I recall feeling a strange sensation as if I had become one with this architecture.
Looking at the large 1/20 scale model, he said, "This window here will let the morning sun in, so it will be a refreshing breakfast. A window on the staircase landing would let the breeze in. If we build a window on top of that, the light from the window will hit the wall and illuminate the room." As I was designing, I felt warm as if the light shone on my body, and cool as if a breeze hit my cheeks. I felt as if this architecture was an extension of myself, as if the distinction between my self and others had disappeared.
Kenya Chiba(2017)
Akinobu Kawabe(2020) Published:・JUTAKUTOKUSHU
january 1994
・Detail Summer 1995
・現代住宅の納まり手帖
November 2019
・Modern Living 2021
JANUARY No.254
Award
JIA 25years Selected Award