A House Made of Two / naf architect & design

Feb 2010

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Architects: Akio Nakasa / naf architect & design
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Program: single family residence
Site area: 250.21 sqm
Building area: 105.88 sqm
Total floor area: 179.11 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

This is a project of one family living in two houses built slightly apart from one another.

One great volume of a house which covers the entire plot was supposed first.

model diagrams

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Then this volume was carved in a curve in three segments and two volumes at the both ends were built as two houses on the site.

The wood structures and finishing materials of two houses are standardized to emphasis the relations of two volumes being originally from “one great volume” and that they are one though apart. Carved volume in the middle became a courtyard leading to the approach to two houses.

Having another house for movies at night, overnight guests or work at home allows the inhabitants the liberty to do what they please at a time they want. This distance between two houses may be just right for inviting grandparents to move in someday or providing privacy to children at puberty.

The purpose of building two houses slightly apart is not the same as that of having a villa at a resort or a farm household having a main building and a barn.

This project is an experiment for allowing more life style options in the life based in the urban area.

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

: © Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

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Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "A House Made of Two / naf architect & design" 17 Feb 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/49900>

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ktanleysubrick says:

Hmm. Somehow its funny design, but to the interriors lack of teh strong idea, as exterrior.

# February 17, 2010 at 06:44

Małgorzata says:

My moderation at last!
Agree with you kt…
External structure should be in reiforcement concrete. That way internal space could be without ugy dark columns and beams.

# February 17, 2010 at 07:38

Sori, …reinforced concrete…

# February 17, 2010 at 07:41

nadire says:

garden centre

# February 17, 2010 at 07:44

Andy Marshall says:

is browsing A House Made of Two / naf architect & design http://bit.ly/9xQikN

# February 17, 2010 at 09:41

thompouce says:

@Ma…
sorry but they may have wanted these beams
I find them really nice, it is a house, not a club nor sportshall, no problem with having columns inside

# February 17, 2010 at 09:20

Trevdor says:

I really really like this actually. I think the exposed structure is captivating, a tip of the hat to historical modernism while being designed in a more contemporary modernist idea. Wonderful pallet, nifty idea splitting one house into two, and great execution. I’d love to live there :)

# February 17, 2010 at 09:49

hang says:

I loved this house very much before seeing the last pic about concept model…..

# February 17, 2010 at 11:01

watashimo says:

I agree with Trevdor. Very nice project, and set into the neighborhood context in a nice way. I like the parking solution too.

# February 17, 2010 at 12:21

Mike says:

So when I want to go to my hobby room I have to cross maybe rainy open space and the guestroom first? Missing link here, imho.

# February 17, 2010 at 12:37

Dimitris says:

Very Japan, Very interesting, very out of the box!

# February 17, 2010 at 19:26

archilocus says:

The courtyard focusing on the neighbor’s palisade is very disturbing. By using the same materials for the ‘cut’ facades and for the others, the concept, basic and very formal, is not so understandable…

# February 18, 2010 at 01:33

Nicholas Patten says:

I'd Live Here: A House Made of Two. http://bit.ly/bstnc2

# February 18, 2010 at 03:17