Firm: Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Website: www.hosakatakeshi.com

Location: Kanagawa, Japan

 

 

LOVE HOUSE is a house for a couple.
On a very small site of 33 square meters of frontage 3.3m / 10m deep, I planned a building of frontage 2.7m / about 9m deep. I draw the biggest curve on there with width and depth of a building, I distributed a place of a
roof and a place of a sky with the curve􀠉And I planned the stairs which went up from the first floor to the second floor with this curve. The main space of the building which these created, it is it with the space that it "is not indoor, and is not the outdoors".

 

 

 

 

Sunlight shows the change from early morning to the evening very clearly to this space. This space without a lighting equipment turns into space where the light of some candles and the darkness of night live together. On a rainy day, a rainy curtain appears along a curve of a roof.When it rains, it is not always the same sound. Quiet rain, intense rain, rain with wind ... rain creates various sounds.

 

 

 

Light of the sun and moonlight play in the LOVE HOUSE, and rain and wind visit LOVE HOUSE, and birds and insects visit a tree and a fruit tree of LOVE HOUSE. The situations differ every day. We can know that all nature given on the earth is prepared in very small LOVE HOUSE. A couple chose coexistence with all things to visit LOVE HOUSE and they decided not to put television to enjoy this rich space.

 

 

 

 

 

LOVE HOUSE does not separate indoor and the outdoors. I discovered the new space that it "is not indoor, and is not the outdoors". And LOVE HOUSE was made. Our sense and instinct may continue still having the thing which the human felt at the time of the Creation. I have a feeling that LOVE HOUSE can remind us of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CREDITS- 

ARCHITECT: TAKESHI  HOSAKA

ASSISTANT: MEGUMI  HOSAKA

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS: NOBUO  SAKANE

 

QUESTIONARY TO PRODUCT INQUIRY-

Name of the project: LOVE HOUSE

Exact definition of the building: a couple

Location of the project:

    Isogo -ku , Yokohama, Kanagawa, JAPAN

    It is far from Tokyo about 30min. by the train .

 

Construction nature: wooden-structure

Site: 33.16 m2

Building area: 18.96 m2 

Floor area ratio: 37.92 m2

Building height: 5425 mm

No. of floors: 2F

Building function: house

 

Architect-

(Name)     Takeshi  Hosaka

            TAKESHI HOSAKA ARCHITECTS

(add)       Kannai capital bldg5F , 2-25, Bennten-st. Naka-ku , Yokohama ,

            Kanagawa , 231-0007  JAPAN

(E-mail)    info (at) hosakatakeshi.com

(HP)       http://www.hosakatakeshi.com

(Project architect)    Takeshi  Hosaka

 

Construction manager-

(Name)     Yoshiharu Ishiguro

            EIKOU CONSTRUCTION Co.,Ltd

(add)       2-8-11 , Kitashinnyokohama , Kouhoku-Ku , Yokohama , 223-0059 , JAPAN

 

(E-mail)    info (at) eikou.co.jp

(HP)      http://www.eikou.co.jp

 

Planning data-

Design: 2004

Planning start (M/Y): April / 2004

Beginning of construction: March / 2005

Completion: July / 2005