House of Seven Gardens / Ikimono Architects

Ikimono Architects‘ clients, with three small boys, pursued a protected house with privacy in a large vacant lot downtown. Ikimono Architects suggested a one-story house with inner courtyards. The end result is a house with a variety of 17 rooms (11:outside,6:inside).

Architect: Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects
Location: Japan
General Contractors: Omnibus Inc.
Design: 2009.4 – 2010.7
Construction: 2010.7 – 2011.2
Structure: Timber frame construction
Site area: 516.70 square meters
Building area: 161.64 square meters
Floor Area: 159.40 square meters
Use: Residential
Roof: Galvalume steel plate roofing standing goby
Exterior: Galvalume steel plate
Photographs: Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects

Here, the personal occupation place such as a bedroom and the nursery is not clear, the whole house is felt with one’s appearance. Because there are some outside rooms, when light and a shadow change to solar movement every moment, the relationship between individuals changes again, too.