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Roof on the Hill, Japan : Takarazuka House

Roof on the Hill Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture - design by Alphaville

20 Apr 2011 Roof on the Hill Design: Alphaville, architects Location: Takarazuka, near Osaka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan Photos: Kai Nakamura This is a residential house located in a new development site in Takarazuka, Japan. Because of the solid nature of the ground, we decided to make a building only by putting a roof over the sloped terrain without modifying it. The house, spread on the terraced ground, has 3 meter by 3 meter grid steel frame. It consists of boxes, including a bedroom, a children’s room and a bathroom, and a residual space resulted from the subtraction of the boxes. On top of them is an undulating roof, whose slits allow sunlight to diffuse into the entire interior space. The interior space is affected by multiple parameters, or the interactions among them. Those parameters are concerned with direction and scale. As for direction, the interaction among the sloped ground, the grid of columns, and the inclined undulating roof of 45 degrees gives the interior a mixed character of order and variation. Furthermore, multiple scales have an influence on the space thus created. The three-meter interval of the grid, the 800mm difference in level of the floor, and the 300mm height of the roof aperture are combined to create both consistency and heterogeneity in the interior space. The relationships among different elements compose the simultaneously open and intimate space, like Italian mountain villages, like an interstitial space between buildings. Takarazuka House - Building Information Project location: Takarazuka, Japan Design: May 2009 - Jun 2010 Construction: Jun 2010 - Dec 2010 Use: residence Building area: 99.87 sqm Site area: 232.31 sqm Structural system: steel structure Alphaville are based in Kyoto, Japan Takarazuka House information from Alphaville architects

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