Site- "Scenario"

It is a very small house constructed on firm foundations will ultimately on the coast of the Inland see in Japan in a

single location. The regulations regarding the protection of the coast had imposed the restriction of the manufacturing

process a επιθάνια 16m2. The main problem was the construction of a more comfortable living space in an extremely

small επιθάνια. The more difficult the problem the more εσιής is the solutions proposed by Ando. This is an example

of the sense of humor Ando .

A clean, immediate solution to the needs of the owner and the limitations of the site, the 4x4 were also, at a deeper

level, the personal response of architect in shocking disaster caused by the earthquake of the Hansin in 1995, which is

one of the most devastating earthquakes ever to hit Japan. So, deliberately designed the house high enough to be

visible the point; the heart of the earthquake in Awaji Island and be directed toward this point.

From the outset, the architect had plans for a further additional construction, a separate but connected to the already

constructed home. With the completion of building the Ando has published a proposal for the construction of a

second. The proposal is a glass box in which it is in the sea when the tide coming in. After the completion of a first

home, a new customer has liaised with the architect to design an "its own 4x4 ".
John Morris Dixon of progressive Architecture he writes for the Tadao Ando: "The geometry of the internal projects of

the Ando, including typical rectangles systems which are cut from curved or angled walls, could as first glance be

considered arbitrary and abstract. Ultimately, however, the result is perfectly designed rooms carefully designed and

adapted perfectly to meet human needs

Separation of functions per floor. • Diagonal movement of the last volume

Standard unit for residential architecture. �Αιζθηηικό measure which regulates the construction of buildings ,

materials and the intervals of Japanese architecture. �Το size of a room is determined by the matting (mats) the floor.

Traditional straw � initially dimensions to serve two people or one person makes κοιμιζμένο. �ροζδίδει premises the

human scale.
O grid can be damaged and other changes. Parts of the grid may be slipping and to alter the visual and spatial angle

of the field.

The initial house was the result of a contest organized by a magazine and approached the client with the famous architect, Tadao Ando. The 4x4

House perfectly adapts to the site requirements. A decisive factor in the project was the Hanshin earthquake, which caused terrible devastation in

the area.Once the first house was finished, a second customer asked Ando to build a similar house in the neighboring site. With this second

order, the architect was able to complete his original idea of the two houses, but with no communication between them as he had previously

thought.

4x4 house is a minimalist house with full of functions and necessities things that
people need. The given site was 65.42 meter square but Ando design the house with
only 22.56 meter square. Ando propose a new design in his personal remembrance
of the destruction of the earthquake with a four-story high building facing toward the
island. He came up with 4-by-4 meters rooms that stacked one top of another like a
block and be restrict with rules of building’s height and also off-street-parking. The
first and second cube were stacked on one another but the third cube were stacked
shifted to the east by one meter. 4X4 house is a load bearing wall structure,
meaning that there is no column inside the house to support the structure but
instead, load bearing wall use a walls instead of columns to support the structure.
These two houses are both pure and simple form. The architects designed a
geometry shape like box and circle, also play with windows and lights. But Villa
Savoye has been supported by column and up lifted above ground which I somehow
think about Greek architecture. But for Tadao Ando's building, 4x4 house, I think it's
very pure and always signify Modern Architecture

Design of Tadao Ando’s 4-x-4 House in Kobe

Miki Tanikawa wrote in the New York Times: “Drawing on his flair for geometric designs and cast-in-
place concrete, Mr. Ando proposed a unusual design: the fourth floor pops out about a meter toward the
water from the rest of the rectangular structure.” “It’s a small space that subsumes a much larger
space,” Mr. Ando said of the effect. [Source: Miki Tanikawa, New York Times, October 14, 2010]

The house’s living room, kitchen and dining area all are there within the four-meter by four-meter
footprint — hence the house’s nickname. Whenever he is on the fourth floor, Mr. Nakata said, “I feel like
 I am on a boat, floating about in the ocean.” “Here, the ocean view comes to you,” he added. “You don’t
have to take a look through the window.” There is a lot to look at, including Awaji Island and in the
distance, the Akashi Strait Suspension Bridge, which at 3.9 kilometers, or about 2.5 miles, is the longest
span of its kind. Tankers and cruise ships pass by often and, below, children often play along the beach.
[Ibid]

Bedrooms are on the house’s third floor, a study on the second, and the bathroom and storage space
on the first. Mr. Nakata, who lives in the house with his wife and 3-year-old son, said the building cost
was ¥35 million, or about $427,000 at today’s exchange rate. It was finished in 2003. But one drawback
is that the trip to the toilet from the living room involves three flights of stairs. “My wife often complains
about the ups and downs involved, especially when she has to bring the groceries up to the kitchen after
shopping,” Mr. Nakata said. But he added: “The view is so precious. I would miss it if I lose this.”

KOBE, JAPAN — Like all artists eager for expression, enterprising architects often dream of breaking free from
limitations like space, budgets and regulations.

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 Times Topic: Tadao Ando

But for Tadao Ando, constraint is the mother of architectural creation, even when it comes to railroad tracks
hemming in the building site and a shoreline that occasionally might brush the foundation with waves.

Designing the 4x4 House on the outskirts of Kobe confronted those challenges directly.

“Whenever I have a project where I have to work hard to overcome physical limitations, it often ends up winning
reactions from all over the place,” said Mr. Ando, who is based in Osaka and whose creations include the Row
House of Sumiyoshi and Church of the Light in Osaka. “From an architectural design point of view, no one would
be interested in houses that were designed and built luxuriously using millions of dollars.”

Mr. Ando‟s design is just one of the unusual creations that architects have devised in recent years when
challenged by natural obstacles, like Japan‟s mountainous terrain, or manmade additions like roads or other
construction.

The 4x4 project began with Yoshinari Nakata‟s property, about 65 square meters, or 700 square feet, squeezed
between the railroad tracks that run along the Kobe mountain range and Suma beach. About a quarter of the lot is
regularly under water, “so the land I could use to build a structure was very limited,” Mr. Nakata said.

He responded to a magazine solicitation that invited readers to apply for an opportunity to have a house designed
by a noted architect.

Mr. Ando, one of the participating designers, was interested in the site‟s limitations, and the fact that the property
is near the seismic center of the 1995 Hanshin earthquake that killed thousands. The epicenter was on Awaji
Island, just across the Akashi Strait.

“I wanted that house to be a point of remembrance for the earthquake,” he said.

Drawing on his flair for geometric designs and cast-in-place concrete, Mr. Ando proposed a unusual design: the
fourth floor pops out about a meter toward the water from the rest of the rectangular structure. “It‟s a small space
that subsumes a much larger space,” Mr. Ando said of the effect.

The house‟s living room, kitchen and dining area all are there within the four-meter by four-meter footprint —
hence the house‟s nickname.

Whenever he is on the fourth floor, Mr. Nakata said, “I feel like I am on a boat, floating about in the ocean.”

“Here, the ocean view comes to you,” he added. “You don‟t have to take a look through the window.”

There is a lot to look at, including Awaji Island and in the distance, the Akashi Strait Suspension Bridge, which at
3.9 kilometers, or about 2.5 miles, is the longest span of its kind. Tankers and cruise ships pass by often and,
below, children often play along the beach.

Bedrooms are on the house‟s third floor, a study on the second, and the bathroom and storage space on the first.
Mr. Nakata, who lives in the house with his wife and 3-year-old son, said the building cost was ¥35 million, or
about $427,000 at today‟s exchange rate. It was finished in 2003.

But one drawback is that the trip to the toilet from the living room involves three flights of stairs.

“My wife often complains about the ups and downs involved, especially when she has to bring the groceries up to
the kitchen after shopping,” Mr. Nakata said.

But he added: “The view is so precious. I would miss it if I lose this.”

Ryosuke and Yasuko Uenishi took on a similarly difficult challenge in 2003 when they spotted a small parcel of
130 square meters that stuck out as a kind of terrace from an embankment in the Shioya section of Kobe. The
couple thought it might be suitable for a scenic house that would meet their budget of ¥20 million.

“We were told, „No structure has ever gone up here because it was small and narrow,”‟ Mr. Uenishi said. “But the
price was good so we bought it with cash.”

The couple hit a snag when their application for a building loan was abruptly turned down. “The loan officer told
us, „That‟s not land,‟ ” Mr. Uenishi said.

But when Shuhei Endo, the architect whom the Uenishis had approached, published a design for the site in a
book, the bank changed its mind. “Suddenly, it was a land,” Mr. Uenishi said.

The steel-frame house, completed in 2004, offers 69 square meters of living space, stretched over two levels.

The lower floor houses the bedroom and the bathroom. The triangular main floor, which is at street level, is
narrow near the entrance, where the kitchen and dining area are located, and widens into the living room.
The living room view is as beautiful as it is busy : there are two railroad tracks, a major road, the ocean corridor
occupied with ships and small craft, and airplanes filling the sky from nearby Kobe airport.

Isn‟t the house noisy? “We had to get used to it,” Mrs. Uenishi said. “It took three months of getting used to.”