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Scenes of a corner room
角部屋からの眺め

This is a full renovation of a corner room in an apartment building. The owner, who spends most of the day at his office located within a walking distance, wanted a space where he can invite his colleagues once a week and have a good time together. We therefore reconfigured the irregular floor plan into an L-shaped living/dining room with three windows offering spectacular views, and a zone containing a bedroom and an entrance hall, and divided the two zones with a sliding door. In a modestly sized room, various details, columns and beams will always come into view no matter where you are, and they will have a relatively significant effect on how the spaces are used and how the areas are perceived. For this reason, our studies focused on how to mediate this situation. This mediation began by exploring possibilities of creating a cohesive whole by reusing or adapting the style of detail that was developed to solve something in other areas. But when it turned out to be too distracting or made the room feel even smaller, we went back to modify it, and repeated the process over and over. The sliding door, which is the main element, was painted in dark blue and placed as the first clue, then the electrical wiring cover placed at a 45-degree angle was painted in orange, and the edging strip made of Tsuga (Japanese hemlock) was placed to accentuate the border between the existing wall and the new wall. Using these as clues, each element was arranged based on a hypothesis, and multiple layers of design interventions including color adjustments and 45-degree cuts were made. We occasionally stopped to examine the space from all angles, and changed materials and colors.This small space is made up of details that reflect and are fine-tuned based on views from multiple viewpoints in the room.

マンションの角部屋の全面改修。1日のほとんどを徒歩圏内の事務所で過ごすオーナーの自宅でもあるが、週に1回程度仕事仲間を招いて団らんを楽しめる空間にしたいという希望があった。そこで、変形したプランを眺めのよい3つの窓を含むL字のリビング・ダイニングと寝室・玄関ホールとに分け、その間を引き戸で仕切る構成に変更した。それほど大きくはない部屋の中では、どこにいてもさまざまなディテールや柱や梁がつねに視界の端に入ってきてしまうが、これらは空間の使い方や領域の感じられ方に相対的に大きく作用してくる。したがって、スタディの中心はこの調停に当てられた。この調停は、ひとまず何かを解決するために考えたディテールのスタイルを他の部分に反復したり流用したりして全体にまとまりがつくれないかを試すことから始めるのだが、それが返ってうるさくなったりさらに部屋を狭く感じさせたりするので、今度は少し立ち戻って修正する、という作業を延々繰り返すことになる。手がかりの初手として主要なエレメントである引き戸はまず濃紺に、そののち45度の電気配線カバーをオレンジに、既存壁と新規壁の見切りにツガをアクセントに、というように、順に仮定しながら配置していき、それらを伏線として色相や45度カットといった操作を複層させ、ときどき立ち止まっては、あらゆる角度から空間を見返して素材や色を変更していく。そうして、際限なくチューニングされた無数の視点場=眺めが、小さな空間にこだますることになる。

  • Date

    2020.11
  • Usage

    Residence
  • Location

    Tokyo, Japan
  • Client

    Individual
  • Total floor area

    55.99 sqm
  • Detail design period

    2020.042020.09
  • Construction period

    2020.092020.11
  • Detail design

    • Co-Architect

      RUI Architects
  • Collaboration

    • Construction

      welcometodo
  • Publication and Link

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