Shizuoka, Japan
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
The site locates on mountainside of
Izu-san, where
Pacific Ocean can be looked down on the south. The untouched wilderness, covered with deciduous
broad-leaved trees such as
cherry trees and Japanese oaks, gives little level ground. But we saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge. The architecture would be used as villa for weekends.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
I didn’t want to just form the undulating landscape dotted with great trees as normal, nor design an elaborate architecture bowing down to the complex topography. What sprang to my mind is a blueprint for an architecture which is perfectly autonomous itself, at the same time seems to emerge as an underlying shape that the natural environment has been hiding. It’s abstraction of nature, to say.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
The architecture was realized by crossing two rectangular parallelepipeds at very right angles. The lower one contains private rooms and bathroom, and sticks half of the body out to existing narrow level ground. The upper one incorporates salon and kitchen, and lies astride the lower one and the mountain ridge. It almost seems like an off-centered cross pinned carefully on natural terrain.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
One axis of the cross stretches toward the Pacific Ocean on south, and the other, the forest of Japanese oak and some white birch on west. The rooms in the lower structure and terrace on it enjoy broad vista of the sea and blue sky. And gentle shade of natural forest embraces the space in the upper one. Water-polished white marble (cami #120) was chosen as interior finishing material. It glows softly like Greece sculptures to blend blue light from the south and green light from the west gradationally, thus creates delicate continuous landscape of light which suggests the character and usage of the space. Exterior is also finished with white marble. The surface get smoother as it approaches to the southern/western end till it takes mirror gloss (cami #1000) at the ends. The southern end of white cross melts into the blue of sky and sea, and the eastern end to the green of forest.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ken’ichi Suzuki |
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| first floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Mount Fuji Architects Studio |
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| basement floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Mount Fuji Architects Studio |
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| section 01--drawing Courtesy of Mount Fuji Architects Studio |
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| section 02--drawing Courtesy of Mount Fuji Architects Studio |
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| section 03--drawing Courtesy of Mount Fuji Architects Studio |
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| diagram--drawing Courtesy of Mount Fuji Architects Studio |
The people
Architects: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Shizuoka, Japan
Site area: 988.58 sqm
Building area: 232.77 sqm
Total floor area: 380.44 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Ken’ichi Suzuki
via:archdaily/contemporist
