Hoto Fudo / Takeshi Hosaka Architects
This building is similar to the inside and outside house we previously featured. The project was planned on the site with Mt. Fuji rising closely in the south and the two sides facing the trunk roads. Takeshi Hosaka Architects wanted this building to take on the characteristics of mountains and clouds. It is made from soft geometry, which are not derived from the figures like quadrangles and circles. By continuously operating innumerable polygon mesh points, Takeshi Hosaka Architects have determined the shape that clears the conditions such as the consistency as shell construction and the undulations that ward off rainwater in spite of its free geometry. The RC shell with cubic surfaces creates such spaces as 530 sqm, 140 sqm of kitchens, and 50 sqm of rest rooms, in such a manner that it envelops and opens them.
Architect: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Japan / Hitoshi Yonamine
Project Area: site 2,493.82 sqm, building area 733.98 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Pertners Inc.
Inside House & Outside House / Takeshi Hosaka Architects
This is a residence consisting of an inside house and outside house. It is also a proposal of architecture of a new relationship between internal and external. Because the site is an irregular shape, the planar shapes of the rooms in the two cubes of “inside house” and “outside house” are irregular shapes. In the two cubes, there are glass windows and wooden-board windows in the peripheries, and any room lets in light and wind from the windows and the inside house intermingles with outside house through windows.
Architect: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Structural Engineer: Nobuo Sakane
Project Area: site 95.98 sqm, building area 37.32 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Masao Nishikawa
Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery / Takeshi Hosaka Architects
The Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery is a complex of church school (2nd floor) and nursery (1st floor) administered by Protestant Christ church. The premises are located at a greenery area in Yokohama city surrounded by fields, parks and hills in the neighborhood. It has been planned in the open space such that places for children to stay are mixed into forest with rich natural environment.
Architect: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Japan Ltd / Hitoshi Yonamine
Project Area: site 1,332.92 sqm, building area 265.97 sqm, total floor area 531.94
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Masao Nishikawa
