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Omn house 2016

Residential Architecture

A home that restores Okinawa’s nature within the city.

This house began as a project to rebuild a ready-built home that the owner couple had purchased in their twenties, after more than thirty years of living there.

The surrounding neighborhood is lined with houses finished in brick-toned tiles, and carefully tended garden flowers quietly tell the story of everyday life accumulated over time. The couple’s wish was to create a home where they could spend the years ahead comfortably and without strain.

In the new house, the center of daily life is gathered on the first floor, with barrier-free circulation planned in anticipation of the future. The second floor contains a Japanese-style room for hobbies and individual studies, while a home elevator gently connects the entire residence.

The former house was a single-story dwelling of 22 tsubo on a site of approximately 60 tsubo. Even during the day, artificial lighting was required, and the relationship between interior spaces and the garden was weak.The site was also enveloped by the shadows of surrounding buildings.

We began the design process by first carefully rethinking the relationship between the house and the surrounding townscape.
A hinpun wall constructed with openwork brick creates a soft buffer zone between exterior and interior spaces. The northern height restrictions were addressed through the application of sky factor relaxation regulations, resulting in an external form that harmonizes with the scale of the neighborhood. The floor plan involved only a simple operation— orienting the living space toward the east. Through this gesture, natural light, the presence of the sky, and the seasonal expressions of a small garden are quietly drawn into everyday life.

Nature within the city is found in the sky, light, wind, and rain. Ventilation through jalousie windows, light falling from top lights, and large openings facing the small garden allow the changing presence of nature to be gently perceived throughout the interior.

By accepting the constraints of site conditions and the surrounding environment, and reinterpreting them as unique potential, we value an original Okinawan way of living— a life lived in quiet harmony with nature.

2018 — Okinawa Architecture Award, Incentive Award
Hosted by the Okinawa Architecture Award Executive Committee
2019 — JCD OKINAWA Spatial Design Award, Selected
Hosted by the Japan Commercial Environment Design Association
Omn house

Omn house 2016

Residential Architecture

A home that restores Okinawa’s nature within the city.

This house began as a project to rebuild a ready-built home that the owner couple had purchased in their twenties, after more than thirty years of living there.

The surrounding neighborhood is lined with houses finished in brick-toned tiles, and carefully tended garden flowers quietly tell the story of everyday life accumulated over time. The couple’s wish was to create a home where they could spend the years ahead comfortably and without strain.

In the new house, the center of daily life is gathered on the first floor, with barrier-free circulation planned in anticipation of the future. The second floor contains a Japanese-style room for hobbies and individual studies, while a home elevator gently connects the entire residence.

The former house was a single-story dwelling of 22 tsubo on a site of approximately 60 tsubo. Even during the day, artificial lighting was required, and the relationship between interior spaces and the garden was weak.The site was also enveloped by the shadows of surrounding buildings.

We began the design process by first carefully rethinking the relationship between the house and the surrounding townscape.
A hinpun wall constructed with openwork brick creates a soft buffer zone between exterior and interior spaces. The northern height restrictions were addressed through the application of sky factor relaxation regulations, resulting in an external form that harmonizes with the scale of the neighborhood. The floor plan involved only a simple operation— orienting the living space toward the east. Through this gesture, natural light, the presence of the sky, and the seasonal expressions of a small garden are quietly drawn into everyday life.

Nature within the city is found in the sky, light, wind, and rain. Ventilation through jalousie windows, light falling from top lights, and large openings facing the small garden allow the changing presence of nature to be gently perceived throughout the interior.

By accepting the constraints of site conditions and the surrounding environment, and reinterpreting them as unique potential, we value an original Okinawan way of living— a life lived in quiet harmony with nature.

2018 — Okinawa Architecture Award, Incentive Award
Hosted by the Okinawa Architecture Award Executive Committee
2019 — JCD OKINAWA Spatial Design Award, Selected
Hosted by the Japan Commercial Environment Design Association
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