Maniera Architect & Associates

Context
The streets which calmed down in particular are located around formed Hankyu Shukugawa station in the Nishinomiya area with a lot of scenic zone. This housing in Tonoyamacho is designed for the married couple living a very busy life and 3 people's of the son's family. A client grows up at a house in Megamiyama-cho which is designed by Mr. Osamu Ishii, and the client had been thinking that built oneself one day.The apartment where my three sons were growing and were living with time is also felt narrowly, and I'm going to initiate a design in a new residence increasingly.

Concept
Great landowner's land in Shukugawa vicinity begins to be subdivided after the Great Hanshin Earthquake which suffered destroying damage in 1995, and stones wall with the fence which continues lengthily and the taste which were here up to that is asking inspiration from this housing to a house of a box type and the streets which replace a parking and are changing. The outward appearance of the star block it just looks decorative seemingly where is also the cushioning material to drag nature into dwelling space gently in the city environment, and there is an aim also charged with the land mark-like role in an area overcoming.

Material
How to take it privacy in housing was a key word in a facade in this housing because a site was a corner lot in a three forked road facing the frontal road with a lot of roads of a car and a person relatively. With a passerby on the road, it's seen, seen one ordered a star block in 400 corners for a relation by surface mail from Okinawa as the material which makes ambiguousness last. A light screen by the star block distributed along line in a gentle site is showing various expressions by the natural light which changes hourly.

Ecology
A wind, the wet and nature such as the sun and the sky are being dragged into indoor deeply through the star block which becomes a facade and each opening facing the courtyard. It's being dragged into indoor deeply through a light screen, courtyard space roofless and that. A hierarchy in a light screen, courtyard space roofless and the space where that's being circled and continued for a boomerang person is distributed step by step. I break the afternoon sun hotter for summer than a light screen and cool off by the style of the basin from a courtyard. Summer can live comfortably by a barefoot, and a floor of the concrete and the stone which are being used for the 12th floor again achieves the direct gain of the daytime sun in winter. An electric floor heater is installed in the 1st floor and the 2nd floor, but it also becomes possible by an electric floor heater only on the 1st floor than a void of stairs that the 2nd floor is warmed.