House in Nagoya - Suppose Design Office

Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Nagoya, Japan, featuring a room dedicated to plants.

The house, situated on a narrow plot surrounded by neighbouring houses, accommodates the client’s desire for a vibrant garden by including a landscaped “garden room” bordering the main living space.

Los arquitectos Suppose Design Office trabajaron las habitaciones y el jardín de la misma manera.
Objetos asociados con los interiores, tales como pinturas, aparecen en las zonas del jardín, mientras que rocas y flores en los espacios de living.
Los diseñadores buscan la evolución constante de los jardines internos para cambiar continuamente la apariencia de la casa.

Objects associated with interiors, such as paintings, appear in the garden areas while rock and flowerbeds overlap into the living spaces.

The designers hope that the constantly changing internal gardens will continually alter the appearance of the home.

It was our intention to treat rooms and gardens as equivalent, and make the relationship between inside and out closer, by creating a design featuring this garden-like room so that things normally decorating a room such as art, books, and furnishings would in a way almost be thrust into an exterior space.

Using this design as a starting point, we hope that words such as garden and landscape that had only been used for exteriors can begin to take on new and varied meanings, bringing vibrant and beautiful scenery into the interior of homes as well, and make architectural aesthetics more and more diverse.

Spur Lane House - SPG Architects

This 6,000 square foot vacation home is located in the high desert of central Idaho.

A 5-Bedroom house with a loft-like living space, it provides a sophisticated and relaxing year-round retreat for its New York City owners. Aluminum fenestration throughout the fir-sided, steel-framed and poured-in-place concrete structure carefully frames the picturesque and dramatic landscape of Sun Valley.

The interior furnishings and architectural form of the structure are expressed in a unified luminous palette of materials that provide a harmonious environment for living. The man-made form maintains a strong presence in the rugged landscape, while the warmth of the interior materials link the house back to the natural environment.

Architect: SPG Architects

Location: Kechum, Idaho, USA

Partner in Charge: Caroline N. Sidnam

Project Team: Sandra Aranguren-Langston & William Petrone

Contractor: Englemann Inc.Structural Engineering: Purdy & Associates

Constructed Area: 558 sqm

Project Year: 2005Photographs: Tim Brown

M-house - OUVI

Japanese architects Masaki Mori of Morii’s Atelier and Shin Yokoo of OUVI have completed a house in Kanagawa, Japan, for a couple who plan to retire soon.

Called M-house, the residence is organised around a kitchen garden.

It is a house for the married couple who will retire soon and for their family. The couple hope to be able to feel the nature through the garden work and the kitchen garden in their life afterwards.

It seems as the theory to build the mountain villa with a span roof and natural material on the site like the villa area surrounding by green. If it is a country house, such a pastoral image might be sometimes necessary.

However, I don’t think that it is always necessary for their life in the future. I dared to choose the ordinary material which is treated easily seen well in the residential quarter, such as alminium sash with the louver door of ready-made goods for a flat roof and the siding board.

It is because of expecting a generic space that excludes the originality of employed material and the uniqueness of the design, and to make a consciousness not only to internally, but also to externally. When I had visited the sites several times, I found that the scenery that looked like the panorama till then suddely changed.

The broad leaves trempled in the breez, the wood of Japanese cedar like drawing by a ruler, the bank which reflects sunshine, and the blue sky without any cloud. Those various scenes were suddenly cut back in the head. Then, I realised that the only one possibility to construct something here was to break up this scenery and to customize for their life.

Towering cloud reflecting in the window. Foggy mountains of background, the sunlight through dim wood of Japanese cedar. Small flowering plant in a bank and a cabbage butterfly flying around them. A tit coming to pick some insects in the lawn. The all are trimmed with the frame in the window, and it is constructed as the new scenery.

The expression which was not noticed before appears, we are healed and are sharpened our feelings. This building is a kind of module that updates the previous scenery, and could be a software that won’t function by itself. In nature, there are some enjoyments, which is to observe by a telescope, to look into by a microscope, and to adjust the magnification between them. It awakes with small bird’s twittering in the morning, and eyes catch the wild bird coming to pick up the insect.

Looking the herb planted outside from the kitchen, and enjoying a meal with the familiy having the conversation of the flower blooming in the bank. Taking a nap sitting on a sofa while looking at mountains in the distance, and falling asleep hearing the sound of insects at night. It is exactly the life that you can feel nature around you. The heat, the cold, rainny day and the windy day.