| SKEW |
| SKEW |
| year: 2005-2007 use: house location: Toride-city, Ibaraki floor: 2floors structure: RC+S+W site area:403.49m2 building area: 171.61m2 total floor area: 195.08m2 building coverage ratio: 60% floor area ratio: 160% structural design: Kenji Nawa construction: Iwahori Kensetu, K. Iwahori photo: Hiroyuki Hirai |
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If what one wants to see there is only bamboo and sky, we should realize relatively large windows; large window frames are made by expensive steel so that we designed the steel frames in larger than needed for glasses for supporting wood panels of walls, floors and roofs. The form of the steel frames has triangle shape for Y-direction structural strength. The X-direction is structured by wood panels on the other. The possibility of linear repetition is good for narrow and long form of the upper horizontal space of the site. The SKEW is a set of a floating lightweight flat and a heavy weight anchor volume; the flat is made of steel lines and wood planes; and the anchor is concrete volume. The flat and anchor are connected with very narrow corridor under the ground. Windows are emerging as voids between steel-wood units; which are slits of physical materials. Unfamiliar appearance of the SKEW is of very natural approach to physical conditions of the site and economical condition of usual budget and of very small hope of seeing bamboo and sky; if so, emerging unfamiliarity of the house should be accepted by the good neighborhood. |