Montblanc House by Studio Velocity
16/10/2013.
[Okazaki] Japan
metalocus, ALEX DURO, ÁNGELA SOLÍS
metalocus, ALEX DURO, ÁNGELA SOLÍS
Memory of the project
The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. In a quiet residential area, surrounded by neighboring houses in three directions. Most houses in the area have only 2 stories and one is able to see the mountains far away.
I began to think how I can make a space open to the situation is surrounded by such. For example, when you’re walking in a forest in the mountains, you feel as though you’re being gently embraced though you’re not actually inside anything. Along the path, where the wind’s breezes encircle the trees’ leaves above, where one can hear the footsteps of creatures in the hush, the murmur of the wind in the trees... I think, an interior-like sense of place, you feel under the blue sky from a urban space.
I think it is good if you make a variety of outside that is visible from a height direction and a variety of site.
Text.- Studio Velocity.
CREDITS.-
Main architect.- Studio Velocity.
Date.- 2009.
Site.-Okazaki, Japan.
Kentaro Kurihara (1977, Saitama, Japan) and Miho Iwatsuki (1977, Aichi, Japan) both worked at Junya Ishigami + Associates in the period 2004-2005. In 2006, they decided to establish the office Studio Velocity. Both are teachers at Aichi Sangyo University, and Kurihara also works at Toyota National college of Technology. They have received several prizes, among their latest awards is the winning prize at the International Architecture Awards (2011) and the AR House 2013.
Kurihara and Iwatsuki have participated in a number of private and group exhibitions, like "JA86 Next Generation -Manifestations of Architects Under 35" in Tokyo, 2012, and "Traces of Centuries & Future Steps", at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.