Built in the corner of an old town, House D is a single-family house designed by Japanese Architect Jun Igarashi. It encourages relationships and continuity between internal and external spaces.
House D in Asahikawa Technical Information
- Architects1-3: Jun Igarashi Architects | Works from Jun Igarashi
- Location: Asahikawa, Japan
- Topics: Fragmentation, Japanese Houses
- Total floor area: 94.70㎡
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: © Sergio Pirrone
As a result here, the inside it is in the outside, and the outside is inside, they become a state with a more complex relationship with the environment.
– Jun Igarashi
House D Photographs
House D description from the Architects
House D is located in a corner of the city‘s old town, Asahikawa. The neighborhood is an old residential area with houses that date from the 1950s to the 1960s, but it had a clear vision of the future, which advanced metabolism concepts in various forms.
Although the house is in the corner of an old town, the architects aimed to think about the design in a broader way “to extend the relationship with the larger environment (Earth).”
As we begin our studies with the given condition, a rational square plan is constructed with the rooms fitted into the plan. However, we realize that this method irrationally creates extra circulation corridors and orients rooms and views. The smallest plan of each program is cut out to be placed in a favorable location and orientation. For example, the kitchen is placed in a “selfish” way to look out to the tree garden on the site and then connect the dining to the kitchen.
With this method, the extra circulation corridors to connect the spaces and hierarchy are omitted due to their location and orientation.
House D Plans
House D Gallery
Notes and Aditional Credits
- Structural design: Daisuke Hasegawa Construction
- Construction: Showa timber
- Source: Architecturephoto
