House in Higashi Ohwada / CASE-REAL

Architects: CASE-REAL
Location: Japan
Design: Koichi Futatusmata, Yuki Onita
Area: 135.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Takumi Ota

Design Cooperation, Construction: Tanaka building firm
Lighting Plan: Tatsuki Nakamura(BRANCH lighting design)
Building Area: 91.3 m2
Site Area: 562.5 m2

Text description provided by the architects. A wooden architecture plan situated at the bottom of a bamboo forest where a small river also flows. The site where the sound of the river can constantly be heard, was chosen by the client who is a photographer. Here, the volumes of the structures were placed along the river, creating a long two layer volume.

Thus the sound of flowing water can be heard in all the rooms which also have a view facing the stream. This house also functions as the photographers studio. Here we have created a studio space on the 2nd floor, and the living space on the ground floor, and by connecting these two floors with a wellhole we aimed to gently link the atmosphere of these separate floors. In addition, by stretching the living room outwards to the stream as an outdoor wood deck, we aimed to take in the surrounding nature as much as possible.