筒のための家Hosue for tube

Hosue for tube

01A tube as a device for noticing everyday life

We designed a villa for three artists. It's a small house like a cottage in the mountains. They were artists who loved the lifeworld and had a style of turning everyday awareness into art. So I thought of designing a device that would help them notice their everyday lives. Therefore, we decided to insert a large tube into the center of the house. A thin mirror is pasted on the surface of the tube. The tube sensitively reflects the surrounding scenery and becomes the scenery itself. Small events such as opening windows or putting something down can make a modification to　the scenery, and we expected it to be filled with various discoveries.

02Reversal of inside and outside through light tube

The tube is a top light that extends to the sky. The sunlight reflects repeatedly inside the tube, filling the tube with a glow similar to the surface of the ocean, brightening the house from the inside. Light leaks onto the ceiling from a window opened on the side of the tube. There is a toilet and shower inside the tube, but as soon as you open the door, a bright light spreads out onto the floor. In this house, the light does not come from the outside, but from a tube further inside. So the house is filled with bright light from the inside. It is well known that this kind of reversal of inside and outside stimulates the imagination.

03Lived wxperience of going round the tube

A mirrored tube that reflects the scenery, and a tube that shines light from the inside. These effects of the tube are beautiful, but the most important thing is that the tube allows people to start going around. In short, the tube functions as a device that induces the people to walk around. As you move around the tube, you feel that various spaces appear and disappear in a continuous sequence, like a main character in a movie. This makes it possible to encounter everyday life or everyday events that you have not paid attention to in your daily life, and to notice various things. Through the experience of moving around, people collect fragments of their daily lives.

04Moving around rhythmically

In the experience of walking around the tube, it is possible to notice various aspects of everyday life. To make this experience more dramatic, we thought of gently cutting the continuity of the space. So we cut diagonally across the ceiling. This cut-out serves as a narrow top light, and the sharp linear light creates a rhythm in the space. In addition, curtains are hung in the cut-outs, and when the surface of the curtains is dyed with light, the bright fablic appears in the space. Light cuts space into fragments. Just like a movie, where the wholeness emerges from the fragments through the experience of watching, the wholeness of the house emerges from the fragments through the experience of walking around the tube.

05Like sweeping a square room in a circle

The diagonal cut-outs tell us that the floor plan of this house is square. Instead of having a round tube in a round plane, there is a round tube in a square room. This two-dimensional shift deconstructs everyday life. Sweeping a square room in a circle means not cleaning everything in the house, leaving the possibility of discovery remaining. So, we created large symmetrical windows to give the impression that the plane is square. The windows are made of frosted glass with low transparency, and the trees on the outside of the building do not show their clear outlines, allowing only ambiguous light and shadow to enter the interior, making the scenery sway. The square interior, which responds to nature, is sure to make you aware of the infinite variety of everyday life.

06To modificate everyday life beautifully

As the residents move around the tube, they discover various aspects of their daily lives and eventually realize that they themselves have become the scenery. This is because one's own image is reflected in the mirror tube. In short, the greatest symbol of everyday life was the residents themselves. Residents are inside the house, and their lives are modificated through the house. Everyday life has been modificated beautifully through everyday life. Through the experience of walking around the tube, the residents feel the space appearing and disappearing, and become aware of a variety of everyday life that they had not paid attention to, and their daily life is revealed to them. A kaleidoscope-like house that beautifully reveals everyday life will modificate the world a little.