House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier
25/06/2015.
[VIDEO] by fuseshigeru. [Narashino] Japan
metalocus, IRENE GARCÍA
metalocus, IRENE GARCÍA
Fuse-atelier, presents this new house in Tsudanuma, in a busy Japanese street. It is a house of concrete where the main objective is the protection from outside noise and traffic by creating an interior space where the living areas are sorted by visual lines that introduce different spatial relationships while maintaining the privacy and freedom of the space.
Façade. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Exterior. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Façade. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Access. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Interior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Access from outdoor stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Exterior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Exterior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Exterior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
View from the rooftop. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Exterior stairs. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Exterior view. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier. Photography © Shigeru Fuse.
Site plan. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier.
Floors. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier.
Sections. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier.
Elevations. House in Tsudanuma by fuse-atelier.
Shigeru Fuse, founder of Fuse-atelier, has designed this house for a couple in Tsudanuma. The search for privacy and protection from outside noises, and the urban limitations, has set back the upper part the house, the interior spaces are interconnected by a network of visual lines and flows.
The large vertical space where the staircase is located works as the connection between the different floors and facilitates the routes between the rooms.
Description of the project by Shigeru Fuse
The house is for a married couple in their forties, located in the city of Narashino. It is situated on the edge of a residential neighborhood and a commercial district that stretches from the station, with large-scale stores nearby. The house faces an eight meter wide street classified as an urban roadway, with busy traffic due to its proximity to the train station. The client wished for a concrete house, where all spaces are stringed together in sequence, while also maintaining the privacy and freedom of a spacious living space.
Since four meters of the adjacent road is specified as part of urban zoning, we built the structure in the back part of the site. The resulting open space in the front of the structure functions as a buffer between the street and the house. Concerned with the privacy and noise from the outside, we incorporated an outdoors space into the structure. Upper parts of the building structure had to be set back due to various legal limitations. As a result, the exterior of the structure was tapered from the second to third floors.
The various spaces of this house are interconnected by producing as many lines of sight and flow as possible. The vertically inserted outdoors space with a passage that leads from the second floor terrace to the rooftop effectively breaks up the interior space. Combined with the flow planning of the interior, this also amplifies the building’s overall ease of navigation. In addition to the flow planning on the exterior and interior, we layered a network of sight lines to inspire diverse spatial relationships. An accumulation of associated parts create gaps both horizontally and vertically, leading the eye through surprising escapes that result in a complex layer of various sequences. By fully embracing the minimalist details of concrete, glass, metal and rock, the space is intensified with distinct sharpness, where the skeletons of the spatial structure becomes visibly apparent. The house becomes a dynamically linked, three-dimensional chain of spaces that inspires various scenarios and distances.
More information
Architects
Fuse-atelier. Architect.- Shigeru Fuse.
Project Team
fuse-atelier + Musashino Art University. Structure.- Ysutaka Konishi.
Main contractor
Three F.
Area
Site area.- 133.27 m². Building area: 63.83 m². Gross internal floor area.- 153.41 m².
Dates
Completed.- 2014.
Materials
Exposed concrete, natural genuine stone. Structure.- Reinforced Concrete.
Photography
Shigeru Fuse.
Shigeru Fuse fuse-atelier
Shigeru Fuse, architect by Musashino Art University, founded fuse-atelier in 2003. He teaches as a professor at Musashino Art university since 2004. Among his main awards sand out ‘architect forum award: encouragement award, 2010’ - House in TATEYAMA -, ‘JPAF award (department of small-scale architecture) of encouragement, 2011’ - House in TATEYAMA - and Architectural Institute of Japan ”work selection 2012” - House in TAKAHAMA -.
