Founded in Kyoto in 1981 by Japanese architect Waro Kishi as “Waro Kishi Architects” and re-organized as K.ASSOCIATES/ Architects in 1992, the office has been a highly accomplished and professionally recognized practice for nearly 25 years.
K.ASSOCIATES/Architects’ broad range of projects includes gallery and showroom spaces, higher education and academic buildings, public bridges, private houses, a sports complex, art installations, and furniture.
House in Sashiogi is located in a Tokyo suburb in the middle of a tranquil landscape dotted with fields and buildings. A single-story house with an open floor plan seemed to make sense. A semi-transparent metal fence surrounds the house’s perimeter blocking the view from outside, while the house’s exterior walls are transparent glass.
The space in between that could not be quite described as a garden, functions as a buffer space for the changing of the environment in the future. The house is a wooden structure with rafters as the main structure, while other elements, including the exterior deck and the fence, are constructed with mass-produced materials to ensure high performance.
We aimed to create an interior landscape with the contrast of the wooden structure and industrial products.
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Shigeo Ogawa