S house site renovation | Store MUU design studio / Ippei Kimono

This project is a remodeling plan in a small town with a warm climate facing Osaka Bay, which is still old tiny house with a tiled roof.

In the planned area, an old couple and their grandfather live in an old private house.

In place of one of the site’s original annexes an open atmosphere has been imagined on the sites’ closed facade and in addition to the original entrance, a second gate divides the flow line of people and cars. 

The new parking lot uses a heavy-duty reinforced concrete, referencing a strengthening of materials in consideration of the ‘hanshin-awaji great earthquake’ that occurred in the neighborhood in 1995.

The garden that follows acts as a walkway, dividing the flow of the car and pedestrians without breaking the premises existing flow lines. a terrace provides further outside space for family and friend, easily accessible to the elderly couple.

The street of the old tile-roofed gable roof seems to overlap straight lines obliquely cutting out the sky. We adopted these obliquely continuous straight lines as the design motif, and developed it on a flat surface.

Spaces where oblique straight lines are continuous create a space with movement by looking at the perspective in the approach and the garden. In addition, the fence in which oblique lines are continuous conscious of the continuity of surrounding buildings, and made a difference in elevation on the line of sight, considering how to open to the town.

Based on these remodeling plans, I hope to enjoy the site and spread communication with people in the town.