ShowCase: Garden and Sea House

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ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message. The site faces the sea and has deep depth. And it inclines toward the sea by the vertical interval like 2M. We arranged the house in the center of the site. The plane shape of the house is wedge to spread towards the sea. Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 We planned the first floor as a place to enjoy a garden. The part facing the garden of the half underground is a glass window. By it, a slope of the ground just appears as form of the openings. The exterior floor covered with the white gravel. Since it is surrounded by the outside wall, outside can also be felt like the interior of a room. By place to stay and movement at that time, relations with a person and the ground surface change. Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 The second floor enabled it to set up a sense of distance with the sea variously in the inside of a building. The both ends of cylindrical space long in the direction of marine are glass windows. An indoor partition wall is also glass. We can look at sea side and the location of the other side at the same time from the room. Even if the sojourner is in any place, he can see or feel the sea. Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 The first floor that enjoys the yard, the second floor that enjoys the sea, and 2 space were divided clearly. Owner enabled it to spend the time of non-every day by going back and forth mutual space with the different feature appropriate for the cottage. Garden and Sea House, Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 2008 Takao Shiotsuka CV Currently lecturing at Kyusyu University, Oita University 2002 - Present Established Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, 1994 Worked at Archaic Associates, 1989 - 1993 Completed the Master Course, Oita University, 1989 Graduated from Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Oita University, 1987 Awards International Design Competition, 2002 Northen Style Housing Complex In Aomori, 2002 Special Prize (Jury: Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando), 2002 GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2001, 2001 Publications HIGHRISE, vol.01-2004 issue, CAN Wallpaper*, 01-02.2004 issue, UK HAUSER, 04.2003 issue, GER ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, 04.2003 issue, USA SPACE, 11.1998 issue, KOR Exhibition 3_2_1 New Architecture in Japan and Poland "Manggha", Poland, 2004 - 2005