IGArchitects 将这座位于埼玉县的住宅命名为“房屋的框架”(Building Frame of the House),旨在将其设计为“一个大房间”。
Japanese studio IGArchitects conceived this home in Tokyo as an adaptable space for both living and working, with stepped living areas framed by boardmarked concrete walls.
Named Building Frame of the House, the home in Saitama was designed by IGArchitects to function as "one big room".
▲ “房屋的框架”是东京的一座混凝土房屋
Building Frame of the House is a concrete home in Tokyo
"[The clients] have a vague boundary between their private and work life, therefore they were imagining a house where they can work anywhere and where they can sense the presence of each other wherever in the house," founder Masato Igarashi told Dezeen.
"With such lifestyle, rather than have small spaces for compact living, the house was designed to have a large volume and scale that makes various interactions between inside and outside space," he added.
To keep the central space as open as possible, IGA organised the floors of the home as irregularly stepped mezzanine levels, connected by black-metal staircases and a ladder.
The ground-floor kitchen and first-floor bathroom both sit at the rear of the home, while the bedrooms and living spaces are at the front. Here, a large bookshelf extends the height of the southern wall.
▲ 错落有致的夹层将内部空间分隔开来
Staggered mezzanine levels separate the interior
While the side walls have been left almost completely blank, sections of full-height glazing at the front of the home provide ample natural light through the depth of the plan.
"The floors are divided to make it difficult to see the interior from the outside, which is treated like a wall," Igarashi told Dezeen.
"The way the space is used overlaps, responding to the residents' lifestyle," he continued. "The floors can turn into a seat, table, shelve, ceiling or bed."
Throughout the home, the boardmarked concrete structure has been left exposed and complemented by wooden floors and shelving and metal countertops in the kitchen.
▲ IGArchitects 将混凝土结构暴露在外
IGArchitects left the concrete structure exposed
"We selected materials that would develop their own flavour as they age, and we wanted to bring out the texture and strength of the materials and their shades in the space," said Igarashi.
"Since the site is too small to create a garden, the interior and exterior are treated equally, and the materials are unified inside and out."
▲ 混凝土与木质细节相得益彰
The concrete is complemented by wooden details