Crossroad House YYAA 山本嘉寛建築設計事務所 Hipped roof Iron/Steel
Crossroad House YYAA 山本嘉寛建築設計事務所 Hipped roof Iron/Steel

This house is designed for a couple and their little son. The site is a

gentle hillside in the south of Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The

external shape is a simple square of 8.1 m × 8.1 m, but it has a

complicated internal structure. We designed four small houses that

extended from each vertex of a large house. The breakdown of four small

houses is garage and bathroom, two bedrooms, Japanese style room and

closet, and balcony. Because they all have different volumes, the gap

between houses becomes a distorted crossroad like an alley. Residents

can move in and out small houses and crossroads. It is a scenery like in

a village. We designed the exterior as a simple residential icon, but

it is wearing traditional cedar boards. We designed the interior as a

complex village, but it is expressed as minimal white cubes. In the

suburbs of Japan developed by urban planning in the 1970s including

Sakai City, residential areas installed next to traditional villages.

The boundary between the two communities has becoming ambiguous for 50

years. We thought that it was the most suitable architecture for this

site to coexist some contradictory conditions.

Colour: Blue
Material: Iron/Steel
Credits: Photo by Yohei Sasakura
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