Monday, November 24, 2008
Refraction House
Completion : 12.2000
Site : Aichi, JAPAN
Building type : House
Structural system : Reinforced concrete
Total floor area : 130.80 square meters
Publications : domus 835,DETAIL7,cree300,Diseno Interior117,DETAIL JAPAN,THE PHAIDON ATLAS OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD ARCHITECTURE 2004
Prize : Anjo-city MACHIZUKURI Architectural Prize
This is a house for a man living alone. He once was a designer and now is an owner/chef of a restaurant. This house is planned to be turned into a gallery in the future.
In an ordinary residential district outside Nagoya City, this house appears to be dancing, or perhaps laughing; the main volume contracts and expands, its zinc skin deformed by an irrepressible internal energy.
The profile of the street facade is a slice through this volume, a sheet of rusting steel that is both threshold and mask for the entirely white space within.
This distorted box/gallery building is compositionally balanced by a small rectangular concrete tower at the rear of the site, and linked another only by exterior balconies. The tower contains a tiny Japanese-style guest room at ground level and the house bathroom facilities above.
All info and images from Amorphe Architects
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