Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects is an architecture and urban design practice based in Tokyo. Our aim is to realize new forms of Architecture and cities regarding Market, Laws, Norms, and Environment as opportunities for our design.
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Window House
★ won the AP Award 2014
Completion: 2014
Architect: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
Structural Engineer: Akira Suzuki / A.S.A
Contractor: Tosho Kensetsu
A weekend house facing to the Sagami Bay with view to Mt. Fuji and Enoshima. The site is just 3 x 8m with 60% of footprint, and the building has become 3-stories almost automatically because the ground floor had to be a piloti by consideration of the storm surge. It seemed difficult to avoid blocking the view of the neighborhood behind. So I designed a large openings both at the sea-side and the road-side in order to keep the view passing through the building during the absence of the owner. And there is a view to the mountains at the road-side indeed. It stands between land and sea and became a house as a window to see through each other.
相模湾に面し江ノ島や富士山を望む週末住居。敷地は３×８ｍで建坪率が６０％。高潮への配慮から一階はピロティとせざるを得ないため、自ずと３階建てとなって、背後の建物の眺望を遮ることになる。そこで道路側にも海側と同じサイズの開口部を設け、ガラス越しではあるものの、不在時には海まで視線が通るような建物とした。道路側には実は山への眺望がある。陸と海に挟まれ、互いを見通す窓のような家になった。