HOUSE IN ABIKO

摘要

This project is a residence for a couple in their thirties, built in Abiko City. The client desired a gallery-like concrete-made space where their pleasure of designed furniture stands out. The site has five meters level difference in the south across a green way. The north side faces a large parking lot across a 4 meter-wide road. The location is at the bottom of two plateaus on a soft foundation. Therefore, stakes were necessary to support a reinforced concrete structure. In order to reduce costs, contacting area to the ground was minimized and the number of stakes was reduced. Accordingly, the upper structure was cantilevered. Then, the walls in varying volumes and the roof slab were made into three-dimensional continuous slanted surface and the stress transmission was rationalized, which became a characteristic form. The residence creates many senses of distance by the monocoque form that pursued the relationship of spaces and a rationality of the structure.