Home for Mother and father / Matsuyama Architect and Associates
Home for Mother and father / Matsuyama Architect and Associates
Textual content description supplied by the architects. The home was designed as a everlasting nesting floor for an aged couple who had spent their lives making Oshima Tsumugi (woven material), a standard craft of Amami Oshima. The location is positioned on the Pacific Ocean aspect of northern Amami, on an increase that overlooks a peaceable village and the mountains. For any undertaking happening on these southern islands, safety in opposition to typhoons and extreme subtropical local weather is of utmost significance. These preventive measures, nevertheless, had resulted within the creation of many buildings which have been designed to shut off from the surface.
On this undertaking, we needed to give you an answer that might, by means of two totally different processes, allow not solely an area that comes with the native pure surroundings into on a regular basis life but in addition a house that may stand up to excessive climate situations. The primary course of was to put in a big roof with deep eaves to create, for many of the indoor areas, a cool and shady surroundings as if one is sitting beneath the timber. The second course of was to create a constructing with a robust construction that, relatively than closing off to guard from typhoons, would open infinitely in direction of the surface.
Particularly, we used metal, concrete, and wooden to discover a part that might benefit from the distinctive qualities of the three totally different supplies. In the end, we arrived at a construction that consists of a metal framework that helps the big roof, concrete-covered exterior partitions, and a wood framework to counter the roof weight and warmth bridge. On the plan, concrete partitions are designed to face independently of the 4-meter-span metal framework. Just like the split-house design, which has lengthy been a well-liked architectural fashion of the Amami Islands, every operate of the home is designed to exist individually, whereas the widespread areas are made to develop outwards with the projecting partitions.
Shadows created by beams of sunshine, coming into by means of the hole between the floating roof and the partitions, recreate the sunshine I skilled as a toddler on this island. The ultimate design is a results of my inquiry into making a home impressed by the indelible scene of my childhood. It’s my hope that the shifting gentle and the peaceable surroundings loved on this home will enliven the upcoming years of this aged couple.
