Awazu's House

The existing building was a sturdy, 20+ year old Hebel House, heavy steel frame, two-family residence.

The layout originally consisted of a living room on the second floor and private rooms on the third floor, but since the third floor had a large roof terrace, the third floor was reconfigured as a living space and the second floor as a private room.
The two floors together were relatively spacious, so the second floor was designed as a forest, and the third floor was designed as a park.

The third floor is like a park. We wanted to create a house where one can enjoy the connection with the outside, as if one were living in a continuation of the city, as if one were passing through a forest and arriving at a park.
　　
The bookcase with its characteristic weirdly curved surface is actually not the first one. The initial proposal was to divide the space with a bookshelf like an inverted arch, but as we discussed various ideas, we transformed it little by little and finally came up with the final form.

In fact, the parents live on the first floor, so it is a two-family house.
We hope that the house is a transformable space that can be used as a dining room, an office, and a home where the family can be seen and heard, while still being connected to each other, and that it can run alongside the long stages of the family's life.

2F: 63m2 ,3F: 63m2 Total floor area: 126m2　
　　　
Construction: Tezuka Corporation / Cooperation: Hira-Koji, Ayumi Obara (custom steel work),
Katsumata Lumber (special lumber), Hatano Wataru (Japanese paper production), Takahashi En (planting)