A House in Kisami / Florian Busch Architects

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Architects: Florian Busch Architects Location: Kisami, Shizuoka, Japan Design Team: Florian Busch, Sachiko Miyazaki, Seiko Yuki, Tomoyuki Sudo, Holger Pausch (intern) Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Florian Busch Architects, Hiroyasu Sakaguchi (AtoZ)

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Project Area: 204.0 sqm Structural Engineering: Ove Arup Japan Mechanical Engineering: ymo Hiroyuki Yamada, Naomi Kagawa

The ‘A’ House in Kisami is a private retreat overlooking the ocean at the southernmost tip of the Izu Peninsula, about 180km south of Tokyo. Located at the end of a tiny mountain road leading up a coastal hill, the site is on a steep slope with stunning views and sounds of the sea.

A young couple, both outdoor enthusiasts, asked for a simple retreat set in the outside that would give them and their children a stark contrast to their daily lives in downtown Tokyo.

Plan 01

With most of the site sloped at 30 degrees and less than a tenth flat, the project started with carving out the mountain. Placing a small volume into the resultant trapezoidal carved-out void, and a larger one on top turns the mountain void into the centre of the house: a spa zone in the mountain between the platonic volumes housing bedrooms on the lower and living on the upper level.

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When the spaces in-between become the building’s essence, it is hard not to realise that architecture is not about objects. The built only frames this essence: the exterior space that flows through the building, down the mountain and connects the A House with the sea.

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© Hiroyasu Sakaguchi (AtoZ)

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Cite: Jonathan Alarcon. "A House in Kisami / Florian Busch Architects" 15 Aug 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/263167/a-house-in-kisami-florian-busch-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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