White Blue Black

Tokyo, Japan
See the bookshelves space beyond the private room A on the 2nd floor. The bookshelf is painted blue to free from the gravity inherent in the books.
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See the private room A with an attic.
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The three color as the rule of this house appears coincidentally.
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See the private room B on the 2nd floor. The bright light from the bookshelves spaces comes in the bedroom B.
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The folding doors of the private room B on the 2nd floor is open. When opened, the bookshelves spaces and private rooms are connected, and the entire 2nd floor becomes one space.
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The folding doors of the private room B on the 2nd floor is closed. When closed, each space becomes a independent space.
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See the bookshelves space. It is a space that connects two private rooms, and when the folding doors are opened, the 2nd floor becomes one space.
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See the entrance on the 1st floor. Light falls from the toplight and the large windows on the road side and the wind passes through to the high-side light via the grating floor on the second floor.
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The entrance on the 1st floor connects the garden in the south and the parking space in the north. It goes back and forth between the two outdoor spaces without going outside, and the outdoors functions as an extension of the indoor space.
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See the exterior appearance facing the road.
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The flow of natural light and natural wind. The bookshelves spaces are a vertical space that pass through light and wind.
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Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects
Location
Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Year
1997
Structural Design
Sano Structural Design Office

This house is located in a high-density area in Tokyo. A key design consideration was the client's large book collection.

In planning the house, we first established a set of rules regarding color, as follows: The structure of the house was painted in white, the supporting elements in black, and the bookshelves in blue. The supporting elements include bay windows, staircases, handrails, small eaves, etc. Blue for the shelves was chosen because it contrasted with the books and lightened their inherent gravity. White and black were chosen because they are the essential axes of color.

In each space, these rules automatically determined how the interior was finished, with little reference to form or function. As a result, accidental combinations of the three colors occurred and unexpected spaces were created. This helps prevent the banalization of space generated by the invasion of ordinary objects.

In a typical house, bookshelves are placed in a study or installed against the walls of various rooms. In this house, the spaces between bookshelves are used as passageways to connect rooms, while folding doors divide spaces. When these doors are opened, all the rooms and bookshelf areas become one continuous space. If closed the folding door, each room gets independence.

The bookshelf space has other function. It also is used as a vertical passages for the natural light and wind. The floor in the bookshelf space is composed of the FRP grating. So, from the top light window protected with ultraviolet-cutting semi-transparent film, the natural light streams until the first floor via the bookshelf space. On the contrary, the wind elevates from the first floor to the high side window for exhausting the heat and the humidity.

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