No Comments »

Passage of Landscape creates a Transparent Connection to Fields Beyond

• Tweet

• Tweet

Architecture firm ihrmk created this intriguingly transparent view-through home in the Japanese countryside after a summertime visit to the site.

The house is made transparent from south to north on the first floor – but from east to west on the second floor.

The east west windows bring in the beginning and the end of the day to meet the client’s brief  “we want to awake in the morning sunlight”, “we want to doze in the comfortable breeze”

Sited right at the edge of the suburbs of Toyota, it maximises the connection with the paddy fields to the south and the west.

To participate in the flow of the surrounding natural environment, windows pop up in surprising places.

An induction cooktop is suspend right in the window of the kitchen.

The suburb-facing side is translucent.

“Bright green and reflection of water of the rice field just after the rice-planting, natural sounds of breeze rusting the leaves of lemon trees and Magnolia figo slightly and sound of running water from the waterway had created comfortable scenery there,” says the architect of his first site visit.

“It was calm place and there was nothing to cutting off my view from the site.”

Drawing on that summertime visit, the architects have made a relaxed haven that exudes peacefulness.