House in Tachikawa

2007　Tachikawa,Japan

This house was planned the library for an enormous amount of books. And from the client’s hope of agricultural centered and down to earth life style, it was planned as an extension of kitchen and a working space such as a reachable kitchen from the garden through the dirt floor. This house adopts the composition that four boxes are piled up and scooted over little by little in an outline of rectangular solid. In four boxes, there are underfloor storage space in the bottom, the bathroom, the kitchen and the bedroom. The characteristic of this house is that the gap of piled up boxes are connected everywhere in this house. An enormous amount of books are openly stored in the continuous gap space. Where you can climb up these piled up boxes is in-house library for the family. The more you climb up the boxes the closer you can reach to the roof terrace ”The room where it rains” named by the owner’s son.