The House is designed fo rhte flower artist, who would like to live in the calm and peaceful surroundings.
" I do not like developed housing areas and wants to enjoy liesured life in suberb where it has forests and the music of the brook. "
Everything started from finding out the place she wants to reside in her ideal location. It takes about a year to discover a site which enables his dimand to satisfy, and finally we moved to design.
The 825㎡ site with a 142㎡ one-floor house is located in the northwestern part of Sendai and slopes towrard Gongen Sanroku. Planning is attached importance to the south side of a mountain stream and the opposite’s vista, and a hall (a promenade space) which has 2.7m in width and 4m in height places on an axis of the vista (an axis of north-south).
Each room connects to the hall, and a decked terrace (an opan space) is swered with the axis. The hall is designed as studios to do various activities. Both sides of the hall is RC wall construction. A roof of the hall is wooden construction. A floor of the hall is covered by developed building blocks made from decomposed granite with underfloor heating. It is confortable to walk with bare feet on the floor.
