The neighbor is one of the environments, too

I intended to make a building like the small city.
Originally, a human being is a creature living in the crowd. Nevertheless it is said that most family types are single life households in present Japan. The person keeps the balance while going back and forth in a personal domain like the house and the state of the crowd like the society. Can the apartment Åthere is society in the immediate neighbor of a personal domainÅ become city life in microcosm?

In the tenement house where 8 households live in, a lot of holes become vacant like a stone pit. In the floor space that include to the roof terrace, the outside is larger than the room, and the inside and the outside are complicated in a dwelling unit. The innumerable outside is personal exclusive possession space and do not have a clear function. The outside is filled with the private lives like furniture and a light or plants, It is in a condition that various presence clung to a lump of quiet concrete.

I provided the courtyard where the window of each dwelling unit faced as a place like the sanctuary. Putting the space that is nobody’s thing in the center of the building, presence of distance is born of dwelling units. The waterfall of the rainy day, the whisper of the leaves to shake for wind, an upheaval of the gravel, a natural change, these shall be dynamic by internal and external relations, and there is not only humans but the weather and a season in the same scenery. The neighbor is nature and an environmental part such as the town not one of a kind.

There are various people, designed gardener, a dyeing man, a building designer. In a living to go back and forth in a lump and the cavity, I hope they enjoy each other’s presence like a natural phenomenon. And, from the gap of the RC wall, I want presence to melt around.

Principal use: Apartment
Architects: Takashi Fujino / IKIMONO ARCHITECTS
Charge / Takashi Fujino, Tatsuya Morita, Takahiro Machida
Planning: Satoshi Ida / TTA Inc
Structural engineer: Emiko Sukegawa / Structural Design firm Accurate
Charge / Eiko Sukegawa
Landscape: Atsuo Ota / ACID NATURE 0220
Charge / Atsuo Ohta, Tetsuo Matsushima
General constructors: HASHIZUME Industrial Inc. Charge / Kunio Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Karasawa, Yutaka Aoki
Air, sanitary: TOKUE-SETSUBI Charge / Hiroshi Tokue
Electricity: JOHOKU-DENKIKOJI Charge / Toshiyuki Koizumi
Site area: 624.56 square meters
Building area: 329.92 square meters
Floor area: 554.23 square meters 1F / 311.85 2F / 242.38
Floor: 2
Structure: Reinforced concrete
Design: 2009.12-2010.8
Construction: 2010.9-2011.4