Lake house
レイクハウス
Lake house
レイクハウス
2011. 1
Villa
503.22 m2
It is a villa which stands by a lake. The area was covered with mist when I first visited the lake. The mist is born from the basin that is unique to caldera lakes and the depth of the water. The mist feels like mysterious particles when surrounded by the light, as if you are floating in them.
By applying this feeling of particles to architecture, I thought that the nature can be connected to the building. The slanted wall that goes in the centre is a wall of stone in the size of 150×1500, accumulated with apertures. To make it fused and disappeared in the lake, the number of the opening increases as it nears to the late. Furthermore, the level of smoothness (particles) on the surface is changed from piece to piece, bringing a gradual variation from gray to black. The surface of the stone darkens as it gets flattened.
Thus the same stone shows completely different expressions. In the middle floor of the three-level building a terrace was set, and the part thrust above the terrace is a hung floor of glass, securing the maximum view downwards deep into the lake. The soft light of the mist wraps the architecture, and the light pours out from the apertures and flows through the glass floor. When standing on the floor you feel like floating in the mist.
2011.1
別荘
503.22 m2
湖のほとりに樹木に囲まれて建つ別荘。樹木が枝葉を広げるようなさび形の断面形状とすることで、最上階に湖の上に浮遊するような特別な空間を生成した。
この樹木の断面の建築の中心部には三層吹抜けの大きな洞(ホラ)があり、書庫として使われている。その洞の周囲を生活空間が取り囲む。
外壁、内壁には、敷地周辺に豊富な安山岩を板状にして積み上げている。厚さ40mm、長さ1500mmの板を先端8mmにまで斜めに削ぎ落とし、木の葉のような繊維の印象の外壁を作り出すことができた。木の葉のように漂う石は、湖畔の一日の光の変化、四季の移ろいを伝えてくれるセンサーである。