Villa UONUMA embodies intimacy and openness by Tsutsumi & Associates

Date of Publishing: November 26, 2022

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Architecture Design of Villa UONUMA

Description About The Project

Villa UONUMA designed by Tsutsumi & Associates is a prominent project which adapt the climate and enviroment surrounding. Indeed, one of the requests from the client was a multi – layered and complicated house. Also, it is an anti – indigenous request compare to the local gable roof. Reinterpreting the meaning of the frequent use of conventional gables, means combining single – pitched roofs. If there are bends or troughs in the middle of the roof, snow will accumulate there and cause damage to the house. Therefore, the designer thought of light and rhythmic shapes by superimposing the segmented single – pitched roofs in various directions.

On the first floor, a Living, Dining Kitchen shared by three generations, two Japanese – style rooms, a bedroom for the grandparents, a toilet, and a bathroom planned. In addition to the main entrance, there is a sub – entrance for clients who enjoy trail running. Also, this sub – entrance eliminates the difference in level with the dirt floor, keep in mind the future barrier – free design.

The kitchen on the North side has a large opening. So that the owner can always feel the rice fields and the surrounding mountains. B5yesides, along the living room and Japanese – style room on the South side, a long porch provided to serve as a space for interacting with guests. On the second floor, the designer planned a second kitchen and living room, children’s bedrooms, parents’ bedrooms, workspaces, toilets, and shower booths. In addition, elements that often discarded in modern houses, such as a farmhouse barn, a Japanese – style room, a porch, and a Buddhist altar, actively used.

The Architecture Design Project Information:

Project Name: Villa UONUMA
Location: Minamiuonuma, Japan
Project Year: 2022
Area: 266 m²
Designed by: Tsutsumi & Associates

Villa UONUMA embodies intimacy and openness by Tsutsumi & Associates — Cedar exterior walls, dome-shaped garage, steep gable roof.

As with the first floor, the kitchen of this Villa UONUMA offers a panoramic view of the North side.

The Villa UONUMA Gallery:

Text by the Architects: Maximum snow depth is 2.7m. The Uonuma region, known as the production area of Koshihikari rice, is also one of the world’s heaviest snowfall areas. Cedar exterior walls, dome-shaped garage, steep gable roof. In this heavy snowfall area, the climate has nurtured design. In this area with its characteristic indigenousness, the question becomes, “How to design indigenous elements that actively reinterpreted rather than mimicked sentimentally” (Kenneth Frampton).

Photo credit: Kenta Hasegawa | Source: Tsutsumi & Associates

For more information about this project; please contact the Architecture firm :
– Add: Japan
– Tel: +81 90-4600-4732
– Email: tsutsumi@tsuaa.jp