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This is a residential project for a family of 5 in Amami-Oshima that is a small island lying south of Japan.

 

Although the island is rich in nature, the site locates in relatively populated residential area.

 

The front and the back of the site are narrowly open toward the mountains. The architects aimed to design an architecture that suites this characteristic environment and unique life in the island, which people appreciate more to live close together as a group.

 

The sharp-angled deck space in front and at the back are the place to welcome neighbours as well as the picture frame to cut out rich scenery from inside living room. Internal space is formed 4 self-standing boxes in the building envelope that is one large volume.

 

These 4 boxes vaguely separate the internal space and function were given to each spaces.

 

During the process of materialising the client’s vision, ‘a family should live as an intimate community’, the architects reached this proposal that has no obvious separation between rooms. In this house with no strict boundaries between spaces, this family is embracing the life ‘as an intimate community’ that we used to have in the past and have been almost lost in our modern society. 

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