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House of Diffusion / FORM | Kouichi Kimura
© Takumi Ota
Architects: FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
Location: Shiga, Japan
Client: Private
Construction Year: 2008
Site Area: 150,24 sqm
Constructed Area: 150,52 sqm
Photographs: The copyright of all images belongs to Takumi Ota
This project was requested from a 30-something couple. The client desired an open and varied space. The lot is located at a part of subdivision lots where idyllic scenery still remains. The east side of the lot faces a hilly area.
The plan has been designed to incorporate the scenery as well as to protect privacy from neighborhood, resulting in the composition of being connected with the outward world while closed inward at the same time.
The “diffused space”, which is neither single nor too much divided, provides to the owner a variety of living spaces produced with the views clipped from landscapes, introduced lights, and flexible spaces.
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- ground floor plan
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- first floor plan
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Japanese design is so Zen! Nice clean minimal house. I would feel terrible to make a mess cooking or leave a book or magazine out if I lived there though.
I’d install some fat bollards on that corner, just in case someone smashes their toyota into the house.
so sad you did that….was just planning to smash sth onto it…
Loos’s wet dream.
Windows! I actually like this Kimura house. A difficult site to say the least
what’s the elevator for?
ЗАГАЗОВАННЫЙ ДОМИК ПОХОДУ…
Really awesome！
Actually it’s not zen-like at all. Japanese minimalist yes, highly refined, definitely! Thehosue is Japanese cultural distillation.
Zen is an extension of the Tibetan Mahayana buddhist traditions, extenuated in China then transferred to Japan. Check this reference here.
This building is typical of Japanses refinement, restraint and unobtrusion. If you are alluding to the buddhist belief in harmony then there are parallels.
It is a beautiful house. As a buddhist I would enjoy its peacefulness but not on a corner – even with (white?) bollards.
Disguised as a mild-mannered literary activist, Charles Flowers strikes again! ,
… not.
I’d suggest you get a life – but I see you already have. But a man can’t live on ego alone.
You miss the point… it’s on that much earlier boat.
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