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House in Tajimi is a single-family house for a young couple who have lived in the neighborhood since childhood. The city, and especially this neighborhood is known for its long-lasting pottery industry. With winding and sloping roads and topography, the town scape is comprised of houses, tile / pottery factories, and concrete-block fences；these “House,” “Factory,” and “Block Fence” are what we have restructured as a small home for the client’s everyday life. Embracing the bricolage of local elements into this relatively small architecture in comparison to surroundings, House in Tajimi provides the possibility for their life and spatial experiences to be expanded continuously to outside town-scapes. The typologies of the home and the engagement with the landscape position the house as a structure in continuous conversation with the land, an interplay between fiction and reality, abstraction, and concreteness. This intentional juxtaposition leads to further investigation of what it means to occupy a space of contradiction while striving for a functionally continuous space. Various dimensions of design in this project, such as formal attributes, material language, structure, and construction details, contribute to the whole narrative of the project and the atmospheric qualities.
Location: Gifu, Japan
Type: new construction / single-family house
Design: Tamotsu Ito + Kaori Sakuma
+ Rika Hatazawa (design phase)
Structure: yasuhirokaneda STRUCTURE
Constructuin: Tokoro
Completion : 2024. 02
Photo Courtesy of
Masaharu Okuda /
tamotsu ito architecture office
Award:
JIA Tokai Residential Architecture Prize - Grand Prize
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