House of Diffusion / FORM | Kouichi Kimura

Jun 2009

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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.

: ground floor plan

: first floor plan

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "House of Diffusion / FORM | Kouichi Kimura" 05 Jun 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 08 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/19979>

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Lucas Gray says:

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.

# June 5, 2009 at 13:11

viniruski says:

I’d install some fat bollards on that corner, just in case someone smashes their toyota into the house.

# June 5, 2009 at 13:52

ted says:

so sad you did that….was just planning to smash sth onto it…

# July 28, 2009 at 04:37

J Farrelli says:

Loos’s wet dream.

# June 5, 2009 at 15:21

Daniel Con says:

Windows! I actually like this Kimura house. A difficult site to say the least

# June 5, 2009 at 20:43

MJ says:

what’s the elevator for?

# June 6, 2009 at 11:06

2MACoff says:

ЗАГАЗОВАННЫЙ ДОМИК ПОХОДУ…

# June 6, 2009 at 18:06

ArtGONG says:

Really awesome！

# June 8, 2009 at 00:46

HowardG says:

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.

# June 26, 2009 at 09:23

Gangster88 says:

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# October 22, 2009 at 18:03

Howard Grimsdale says:

… 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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