japanese practice suga atelier has sent images of their recently completed project ‘house of cedar’, a residence in osaka, japan.oriented towards the north to overlook a sloping bank of earth and a river, a glass facade secured with a rectilinear pattern of aluminum mullions reveals two interior stories. the squared exterior is interrupted with a fold to create a reveal between the elevated structure and ground plane. placed along the eastern elevation, the protruding line runs through the main entry portal,continuing the crease through metal door.
房子两层高的主体结构由交叉的杉木支撑,而且结构完全暴露在室内。建筑入口位于房子侧面,入口上方是突出的浴室,这正好为入口提供了一个别致的雨棚。建筑师运用许多小尺寸的简单木材编织组合在一起,形成让人愉悦的空间,这是一个与树木共存的更好的方式。
a new structural system hybrids a wooden framing and steel bolts for a warm interior atmosphere. instead of surfacing the two interior levels with wood finishes, smaller struts are integrated and woven into the internal walls and ceilings to evoke the structure of trees, generating the feeling of living within a forest in nature.