House W
W宅

Gifu, Japan_岐阜, 日本
Built_建成

House W is located outside the city of Gifu, sitting on a tiny irregular shape concrete base in about 80 square meters. Unlike fast-pacing life in major Japanese metropolis, life in the suburban area is peaceful and slow in such a lush nature environment. That is why the client, who runs a family owned international business, seeks here to be the ideal place where she could meet with different people, host private events and mostly importantly, connect with nature.

This design is started to rethink relationships among different elements of a home and reprogram them in a fresh manner, to build a more open and liberal life style. It breaks the general awareness of core in a building, which are typically circulation and mechanical parts. In this design, the private and necessary functions are condensed into the center to compose a conceptual minimal house, as we called Moya in Japanese, with bedroom, library, lobby and etc. Meanwhile, various public and open programs are dispersed around the central as a continuous ring of spaces. All parts are leveled at different heights with no direct circulation but connected through the central house. In order to reach another space, the Moya must be used as central circulation core. It establishes a bonding relationship between the elements in the core and around perimeter. The carefully-designed openings are facing different orientations, outlining a picture of nature or city scene, expanding inner space corridors and bringing as much natural light as possible to fill inside. The experience is constantly change when elements including those from outside are always in a dynamic state. As a result, the spatial loop, embraced the central house, Moya, is both continuous and discontinuous, detached and dependent, dynamic and steady.

W宅是一座私人住宅兼工作室，位于一块仅占地80平方米的现存不规则场地之上。业主选择这个与自然靠近的宁静之所是想要在此建立一个能作为其开放工作室，举办聚会，与不同人相遇的场所。设计将私密及必要的生活起居功能集中于空间的中心，形成了一个概念上的极小之家，与日本传统空间中的母屋相对应。其他半私密功能围绕中心设置在不同的标高之上，使室内形成一条连续的环形空间，行程类似于缘侧的空间。窗洞向不同的城市场景空间与自然山体开放，将室内空间向外释放。