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株式会社TENHACHI一級建築士事務所
CLIENT // M
PROJECT TYPE // CONSTRUCTION
LOCATION // HATSUDAI, SHIBUYA-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN
FACILITY // RESIDENCE
GROSS CONSTRUCTION AREA // 71sqm
CONSTRUCTION AREA // 25sqm
RANK // 2 STORY
STRUCTURE // TIMBER FRAME STRUCTURE
PROJECT TEAM // TOMOKO SASAKI
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER // Tetsuya Tanaka Structural Engineers
CONSTRUCTOR // FUJI SOLAR HOUSE
YEAR // 2019
PHOTOGRAPHS // akihideMISHIMA
Mahoney Architects & Interiors
The home office and be screened from the media room with shoji pocketing doors
Katherine Kawaguchi
Home Office - Sewing Center - Guest Bedroom
Eskaton Single Family Residence - Blue Oaks Roseville
photo by: Dave Adams Photography
Hartmann&Forbes
Designer: Maison Inc (Joelle)
Photographer: David Papazian
Roman Shades: LE1242 Tissage - Arabian
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This home office was built in an old Victorian in Alameda for a couple, each with his own workstation. A hidden bookcase-door was designed as a "secret" entrance to an adjacent room. The office contained several printer cabinets, media cabinets, drawers for an extensive CD/DVD collection and room for copious files. The clients wanted to display their arts and crafts pottery collection and a lit space was provided on the upper shelves for this purpose. Every surface of the room was customized, including the ceiling and window casings.
Feinmann, Inc.
Our client, a professor of Japanese sociology at Harvard, owned a Deck House home with its post and beam construction and 1950’s modernist simplicity. She asked Feinmann to design a multi-purpose addition to meet several needs: a functional yet spacious home office, a beautiful entry way into the home, and a serene sitting area.
The client mentioned she has always wanted a Japanese “scholar’s study,” which is traditionally a contemplative workspace area enclosed by shoji screens. We told her the Japanese minimalism she desired and the clean modernist aesthetic of her existing home could marry quite nicely (the blending of East and West) with some thoughtful interventions.
The challenge then became finding a way to balance these styles. The house is surrounded by many trees, so bringing nature into the home was easily achieved through careful placement of windows throughout the addition. But the design element that brought it all together was the large translucent wall (kalwall) in the main hallway. This unique material allows for diffused natural light to envelop the living spaces. It has the same insulative properties as a typical exterior wall, and therefore is considered to be a great “green” building material. It is also quite versatile, and we were able to customize it to give our accent wall the Japanese feel of a shoji screen.
We reiterated this design element with actual shoji screens to enclose the scholar’s study, which also doubles as a guest room. Post-and-beam construction was continued from the existing house through the new addition in order to preserve aesthetic continuity.
Homeowner quote:
"I wanted a certain feeling and the Feinmann architect really got it. I had already been through three different architects—one even said that the house was a tear down."
Awards:
• 2007 Gold Prism Award Renovation/Addition Best Remodeling/Restoration under $250K
• 2007 Best of the Best Design Award Residential Addition for Best Project under $250K
• 2007 Remodeling Design Merit Award Residential Addition $100 - $250K
• 2007 Regional NARI Award Contractor of the Year: Residential Addition
• 2006 Eastern Mass NARI Award Best Addition over $100K
Photos by John Horner
Free Space Intent
The study cum living area for a acclaim Singapore movie director. Industrial looking cement screed walls with large size concrete lookalike homogeneous floor tiles. Accessorized with vantage and retro decors and furniture.
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