Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

Cube House In Japan

Cube House

Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

ARCHITECTS
Shinichi Ogawa & Associates: Shinichi Ogawa & Associates / Urbanist Architect

AREA 
120 m²

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Japan

CATEGORY
Houses

The house is built on a 1.5M grid module in all XYZ directions. This site is at a corner of the new residential area in Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.

The space is composed of a solid cube of 9.0M x 9.0M x 6.0M and a cubic void of 4.5M x 4.5M x 6.0M.

Cube House In Japan

The hall, children's room, kitchen are laid out to surround the living-dining room on the ground floor.

On the first floor, the bedroom, walk-in closet, bathroom, court, are are laid out to surround the double floor-height well which is 6.0M.

Each room of the interior space is connected through the void of the living room and the void cuts off the sky as a geometric form, letting the sunlight inside.

In this house, all events, the changes of the seasons, course of time, and human activity, are created through the void.



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Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
T +81 82 2787099 F +81 82 2787107
Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
5-33-18 Inokuchi, Nishi-Ku Hiroshima, 733-0842, Japan