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| Japanese Horizontal House by Eastern Design Office Posted: 16 Mar 2013 05:07 AM PDT
The Horizontal House situated in naturally village in Shiga Japan, created by Japanese architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno for EASTERN Design Office. This house doesn’t like a house, designed shape of the house traces the boundary of the village. The material are used combine both of stone in exterior wall and wood in the interior. The sequence of the view that the slits cut out and the spaciousness at the entrance, because of the horizontal slits surrounding the whole house there is scenery wherever can see.
“The village in the deep place is seen in the slit in the north. Sequence of the mountain continues far away. Footpath in rice field and the person's coming and going, which disappear into the mountains. The river is seen in the slit in the east. Children bubble over to catching sweetfish there. The Shinto shrine lurks under a large Japan cedar of 400 years. Tsukiaimichi (a communal alley) can be seen through the slit in the shoji in the south. The roofs of the village and the zelkova big trees overlap in the scenery. A mountain comes in the scenery in succession over that. The shrine where the forest and this village are defended is seen in the slit in the west. There is the one "Tsukiaimichi". Though the road belongs to somebody of the village, everyone of village may freely pass through. The person in the village strolls with their dog on "Tsukiaimichi", they stand chatting, and take a shortcut. The client gives importance to "Tsukiaimichi". And he wishes to defend his privacy without closing the view to the outside.The stone wall is extended. Thus the retaining wall is made. It forms "Tsukiaimichi" surrounding the site at the position without the pressure feeling. "Tsukiaimichi" goes up to the courtyard through the retaining wall where the width was narrowed once. The retaining wall lowers gradually and disappears on ground. Then view opens rapidly. But the stone of 170cm height wall is inside to obstruct the view into the house from passersby. And the stone wall 120cm in height appears. Here is the entrance. The shoji where the slit was put so as not to see the inside faces the courtyard.”
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