SURROUNDED YARD

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Project team : Negish Akira Morita Tatsuya

Consultants : Sukegawa Emiko/Structural Design firm Accurate

General Contractor : Kenchikusha Shiki Inc.

Design : 2013.3 - 2014.11

Construction : 2015.6

Structural system : wood

Story : 1 stories

Total floor area : 151.97㎡

Program : house

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SHINKENCHIKU JUTAKUTOKUSHU 2016.3


Living beside the field.

I was requested the house in the northern Kanto for young married couple and their children who move on from the metropolitan area. They will start to live enjoying the nature and associate with the local community in here. Looking around the vicinity, a lot of house is surrounded by hedges and shed, firm implements and clump of tree was standing along. The houses keep distance from outside of site so the calm life in here is existed even there are many acquaintances. I thought, I want to create the architecture as same as this broad landscape.

I decide to surround the living area till the end of the site and assigned 60% of area as external space. This space is external room that bigger than whole floor print. The floor remains at ground, inclines slightly along the natural feature, creates modest gullies and hills. If it rains the small river flows, unknown seeds come into bud and if there is nothing happen, naturally the haunt of small stone and sheded leaves are occure. Here is like a field.

Here is not planed so much as a garden but is not rejecting all as wilderness, is a familiar place without the control of residence. I named this natural place as “ Room of field”. If the Japanese garden is defined as creating artificial nature by making use surrounding landscape in it, here is the small nature which remained intentionally in this site in order to continue with the surrounding landscape.

Moreover the internal space such as an entrance, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a lavatory, a bay window, a sunroom, a child's room and a bedroom, and the external space such as an engawa; Japanese loggia, an outdoor sink, a desk, an eaves, a storage shelf and a concave part of wall surround it. With the wall go away from internal space, the wall is being lower and lower, the surroundings gradually flow into the site. At the lowest point of site, the neighbor' s trees overlap above the wall and connect with green. Through the big open entrance, “Room of field” continues with a field and a mountain, it means daily life and a far landscape are engaged without a break.

The space is going on endlessly, crossing the field, crossing a field, mountain and sky. Architecture cut into area from this enourmous space to make limited space. Nevertheless the role of architecture is making people to feel the unlimited expanse of space as well. So I think “Room of field” is like a large door that leads the residence’s consciousness toward outside.

After completion of this house, the husband commute from here to central of metropolitan area. In the situation that commuting between urban place and rural place, the changing nature and surroundings always make him to feel daily occasion such as a “Here is one place , now is one time”.To know the expense of the outside is to know where I am now.

担当 : 藤野高志 根岸陽 森田達也

構造設計 : 助川恵美子/アキュレート構造設計事務所

施工 : 建築舎四季

設計期間 : 2013.3 - 2014.11

竣工 : 2015.6

主体構造 : 木造

階数 : 地上1F

延床面積 : 151.97㎡

用途 : 住宅

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新建築住宅特集2016年3月号


野の隣に住まう

北関東の小さな集落に,都内から移住する若夫婦と子供たちのための家を依頼された.これからこの集落で自然を享受しながらも地域社会と付き合っていく生活になる.まわりを見渡すと,多くの家が垣根でぐるりと囲まれ,納屋や農具や木立が並んでいる.住居が敷地の外と距離を保っているので,見知った人ばかりの地域社会でも落ち着いた暮らしが成り立っている.このおおらかな風景を建築化したいと思った.

敷地いっぱいに生活領域を囲い,その6割を外部空間にあてた.延床面積よりも広い外の部屋である.床は土のまま,地面の起伏に沿ってなだらかに傾斜し,ささやかな谷や丘の微地形を携えている.雨が降れば川ができ,見知らぬ種が芽を出し,放っておいても落ち葉や小石のたまり場ができる.まるで野原だ.

野.庭ほどには計画されず,荒れ地ほど拒絶するでもない,身近だが人の制御の外にある存在.このあるがままの場所を「野の部屋」と名付けた.外の景色を借景しながら疑似的な自然をつくるのが日本庭園ならば,これは,外の風景と連続するために敷地内に意図的に残された小さな自然である.

それを囲うのは,玄関,居間,食堂,厨房,浴室,洗面脱衣,出窓,サンルーム,子供部屋,寝室といった室内空間と,縁側,外流し,机,庇,収納棚といった塀の寄り付き.塀は室内から離れるにつれ低くなり,周囲の風景が徐々に敷地の内側に流れ込む.もっとも低い所で隣地の屋敷林が被さり,敷地をまたいで緑が繋がる.大きな開口を通して「野の部屋」は畑や山へと続いていき,身近な生活風景から遠くの景色までが切れ目なく繋がる.

野を越え,畑や山や空を越え,空間は果てしなく広がっている.建築がそのうちのほんのわずかを囲いとり有限の場所が生まれるとしたら,そこから外の無限の広がりを感じさせることも,建築の役割だろう.「野の部屋」は,住人の意識を外へと開く大きな扉のようなものかもしれない.

家が竣工し,主人は毎朝ここから都心の超高層ビルへ通勤している.都会と田舎の往復生活にあって,野の隣に住まうことで,自然の移ろいや取り込まれる周囲の風景が「ここはどこで,いまはいつか」,そんな当たり前のことをいつでも感じさせる.外の広がりを知ることは,自らの居る場所を知ることでもある.