House in Yamakawa by Horibe Associates
This kinked house in Japan by architects Horibe Associates has all its storage space along one edge to buffer sounds from a noisy road (+ slideshow).
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"This home sits on a road that gets a surprising amount of traffic given how narrow it is," said Horibe Associates. "To minimise the noise from cars and to ensure privacy, [we] concentrated storage spaces along the side of the house facing the road and added a hallway as a further buffer shielding the main rooms."
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Designed for a couple and their child in Tokushima Prefecture, the wooden structure is clad in horizontal strips of dark metal.
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The profile of the roof peaks at the kink, echoing the shapes of mountains in the distance.
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At the back, rooms have large windows that look out over the cherry blossom trees in the expansive garden.
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Bedrooms are located in the entrance wing, next to a opening that leads directly out to the back from the front door.
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Combined kitchen, living and dining space at the end of the house opens out onto a pointy terrace, screened from the road by timber trellis that continues the line of the roof.
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A timber lean-to sits at the other end of the house, stained the same colour as the wood front door.
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This is the fourth project we've featured by Horibe Associates in the last month. Others include a charred wooden house with an arced profile, a family residence fronted by a sweeping canopy and a combined home and dog salon.
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Other popular Japanese houses we've featured lately include a dazzling white abode with a shallow reflecting pool and a cedar-clad house with a garden that snakes between its rooms.
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Photography is by Kaori Ichikawa.
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