DIG IN THE SKY by Alphaville Architects
12/01/2015.
[Osaka] Japan
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Alphaville Architects have made this housing project. The house is built on a narrow plot in the city of Osaka, which is trying to introduce light in all the rooms through a complicated and interesting crosslinked loop system.
Overview. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Ground floor vision. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Courtyard. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Night vision. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Inside. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Inside. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Inside. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Staircase. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Staircase. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa.
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa
Inside view. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Model. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Structure. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Photography © Shigeo Ogawa. Click above to see larger image.
Idea Sketch.House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Site plan. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Floor plans. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Elevation. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Sectional perspective. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Sections. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Sections. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Light distribution. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Structure. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
Rendering. House in Osaka by Alphaville Architects. Click above to see larger image.
The project by Alphaville Architects is developed with a steel structure, partially built on stilts to get a clear space on the ground floor. Three modules of rooms connected by corridors and no doors, make the space constantly flow between the three floors.
Description of the project by Alphaville Architects
At the center of Osaka, We designed a residence that is composed of three buildings sandwiching two courtyards, so as to bring light to a narrow site surrounded by neighboring houses on three sides. As each building will hold one-room-sized space on each floor, we decided to connect rooms with tube-shaped corridor and staircase that cross the courtyards. Every room is not divided by doors, but instead is linked by long stretching-shaped entrances. They are loosely connected, but are able to gain appropriate sense of distance for habitation.
A part of the first floor is pilotis. The floating tube further crosses the courtyard diagonally and obstructs or reveals sights and noise between rooms, rooms and neighboring houses, rooms and street through pilotis. The sunlight that reflected on the exterior wall of the tube penetrates into the interior space from various angles. It creates intoned sequences by overlapping of the tube and the landscape seen beyond, as if multiple folding screens stand.
Because there are two tubes that connect the third floor and the second floor, a loop the links the space three-dimensionally avoids the residence to the dead end. The interior which is not confined by private rooms or doors enables not only to offer many different routes to get to the destined place, but also to have a feeling of city-scape thanks to the tubes serve as the half-public space, and also to the half-open, half-protected courtyards by three-dimensional move of those tubes.
CREDITS. TECHNICAL SHEET.-
Architects: Alphaville – Kentaro Takeguchi + Asako Yamamoto.
Project team: Tomohisa Koike.
Structural engineer: S3 Associates Inc. – Ichiro Hashimoto, Shunya Takahashi.
Main contractor: Osawa Komuten Co.
Bathroom equipment.- Sanwa Company.
Ceramics.- Sanwa Company.
Lights.- iinonaho grass garden (chandelier), Panasonic Corporation.
Upholstered furniture.- Fujie textile corporation, hhstyle.com.
Water taps.- Grohe Japan.
Doors/Windows.- LIXIL Corporation (TOSTEM).
Roof.- JFE Galvanizing & Coating Co.
Facade elements.- JFE Galvanizing & Coating Co.
Site area.- 83.69 sqm
Building area.- 58.78 sqm
Total floor area.- 151.65 sqm
Building scale.- 3 stories
Structure system.- steel
Complete.- 2011
