RE14
Semester Research «Building & Landscape»
Juliana Furrer
HS20
Research: Inverted House, 2016
Architect: AHO, Kengo Kuma, Raphael Zuber
Location: Hokkaidō, Japan
Type: Vacation House
Sources: archdaily
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“The Inverted House brings the ‘harshness’ of the surrounding into the house itself. By minimalizing heated interior spaces and creating a series of sheltered exterior spaces, the building reads the legacy of traditional Japanese Sukiya-zukuri in the light of Scandinavian frugality. Its rough walls create a clear division in the landscape, holding together precisely articulated wooden roofs and floors. The resulting unity becomes an instrument, using wind, snow and sun to change the feeling of the world for its inhabitants.”
“The Inverted House brings the ‘harshness’ of the surrounding into the house itself. By minimalizing heated interior spaces and creating a series of sheltered exterior spaces, the building reads the legacy of traditional Japanese Sukiya-zukuri in the light of Scandinavian frugality. Its rough walls create a clear division in the landscape, holding together precisely articulated wooden roofs and floors. The resulting unity becomes an instrument, using wind, snow and sun to change the feeling of the world for its inhabitants.”
