NORITAMA HOUSE

摘要

By just attaching the R=570 walls to the standard 910 modules, we can get multiple horizontal walls which will give an impression of stretching farther away. As a result a perspective view at each corner will vanish, and this small three-story house can acquire anew a different kind of largeness betraying the physical limitations. Light and wind come from the openings which are placed where a wall stands upon another, and the windows also give a far-stretched view of the actual site space above the boundary line, securing privacy. The three story void of the north wall whose inside is armed with steel frames to stand against the wind pressure, soars like a "symbolic oasis of the house, giving a sense of unity and pleasure for those who see it from any spots of the house. Its curved wall looks faintly luminous with the light falling from the top, and once it is framed three dimensionally by means of the ceiling edges and built-in furniture, then there appears a kind of bottomless space with a blurring focus. The space turns eventually into "an phenomenal opening" in a paradoxical sense where one may project any kind of images.