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House of Representation by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
Light floods into this Kyoto house by Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects through a light well in its enormous chimney.
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The two-storey residence, named House of Representation, occupies a countryside location and has an off-white rendered exterior.
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Rooms on the house’s ground floor surround a central living room with a recessed stone floor.
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A staircase with glass handrails leads up to a study on the first floor, as well as a bedroom that opens out to a rooftop balcony.
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We've published lots of houses by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects on Dezeen, all with rendered monochrome exteriors - take a closer look at them all here.
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Photography is by Takumi Ota.
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Here's a little more explanation from the architects:
House of representation
This house is planned on a site from where there are beautiful views of the country side.
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The request from the client was for the creation of intimacy, but with large living area.
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The exterior is designed as a monumental form so that it can seem to be a new addition to the countryside scenery.
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I created a centripetal plan where each room is connected through a corridor from the multi-level living area.
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Around the corridor, walls, which have different textures and shapes, make a sequence inside the space.
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The walls and spaces are highlighted by natural, indirect light, so your eyes are drawn to, and focus on, the interior.
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By the basic process of manipulating and controlling "light" and "views", I tried to make the inside space more intimate and deeper.
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Rather than doing large gestures of acrobatic space composition, I have instead created what I feel is a space that represent the unusual, by doing small and poetic movements that control light and the viewers eyes.
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Architect: Form/Kouichi Kimura Architects
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Client: Private
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Construction: 2011
Site area: 355.78 m
Construction area: 213.20 m