Architects: Osamu Morishita
Location: Anjo, Aichi, Japan
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 125 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
IO is a small house made of wood. I considered how to create the open planning for a young family who prefer intimateness between families and neighbors to privacy. In the traditional Japanese houses people have never felt solitude.
This house has just sliding doors and it also has “Doma” (earth floor) which old Japanese houses had for the entrances and multi-purposes including kitchen, where people communicate one another and work together. Anyone can approach easily from outside with their shoes, and family can handle co-operating work there. No wall but just sliding doors cannot keep families strict privacy but they can feel their own warmness.
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- Courtesy of Osamu Morishita
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- First Floor Plan 01
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- Second Floor Plan 01
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- Roof Plan 01
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- Elevation 01 01
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- Elevation 02 01
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- Section 01
This house should be somewhere in a nice green environment, then might be cool. Now it’s just freaking absurd even for the good old japanese circumstances.
The site is terrible. The views into your home from all the apartments is a mess. Location, location, location.