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Garden House

This is a project by Takeshi Hosaka Architects and it is located at Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Project's program: Single family house. There are fourteen images for Garden House.

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Project details

Project name: Garden House
Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Program: Single family house
Area: Plot area: 97.67 m2 • Building area: 52.12 m2 • Deferred floor space: 113.51 m2
Year: Design: 2006 • Planning start: October 2006 • Construction start: March 2007 • Completion: October 2007
More details: Structure: Wooden structure + RC
Client: Jyunichi Kojima
Project by: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Team: Architect: Takeshi Hosaka
Others: Structural Engineer: Nobuo Sakane

Project images

Designer's statement

This is a house consisting of inside and outside spaces.

The clients are a married couple. Their request: “We want a house in which we feel as if we are outdoors.”

While there is no clear boundary between the indoor and outdoor in terms of the construction of a house, it offers uninterrupted experiences and similar dimensions, structures, finishes, and furniture density.

Although the indoor and outdoor are different environments, all the more reason it is fun if there are both the indoor dining and outside dining. You can sleep on the comfortable bed outdoors for a short sleep. When thinking like this, I feel that a living in which you can do various things inside and outside is possible.

Sometimes you can feel that the inside space is extended from the outdoors or is a space like outside. Sometimes you can feel that the outside space is extended from the inside.

I aimed to design a house in which its dwellers feel at ease as if the whole house looks like a garden. I thought that I'll try to design a house where the scenes of living expand to both inside and outside.