Ceiling And Ellipse House Renovation
Ceiling and Ellipse House Renovation
Murayama + Kato Architecture
ARCHITECTS
Murayama + Kato Architecture
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Toru Murayama, Ayako Kato
DESIGN TEAM
Toru Murayama, Ayako Kato, Shimpei Terada
CONTRACTOR
SS
YEAR
2018
LOCATION
Kodaira, Japan
CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation
Text description provided by architect.
The renovation project of a 20-year-old house, whose most unique character is a large window and pitched roof facing south.
Our proposal is to insert another ceiling with a super elliptical void at 1.8m height in the upper floor, where living, dining space and kitchen are located.
This ceiling creates not only the space both above and below this, but also works as structural and environmental element, which make it possible to remove the existing bracing and to let the wind in from the upper part of the window.
This ceiling also exists as a maximal/autonomous object in the existing context.
Therefore the strong form of this ceiling/void could react toward the surrounding situation, physically and metaphysically.
