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House in Goshikiyama / Tomohiro

Hata Architect and Associates

Curated by Hana Abdel Share

HOUSES • KOBE, JAPAN

Architects: Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

Area: 40 m²

Year: 2020

Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano

Lead Architect: Tomohiro Hata

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Text description provided by the architects. This house is

built on a very small site along the railroad tracks. To plan
a house for five family members in this place, it seemed
necessary not to physically close in this place but to create
the connection with the city, also to fold each space of
living on a small footprint in a three-dimensional way and
in a compact manner.

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I wonder if we can derive a unique mathematical form and

develop it as a small but universal spatial framework like a
new grid from such a background of this house?

First, we focused the stair that is not only connect with the
upper and lower floors, but also indispensable as an
element connecting the steps of the retaining wall and the
road. Because the footprint is so small that it seems to be
filled up if you arrange the stairs, so I added multiple
functions and meanings to the spiral staircase that swirls
from the city to the sky.

This spiral is an approach that connects the inside and

outside, a staircase, a stairwell that connects the places, a
space that rationally folds the place inside and outside, a
window that guides light and wind inside, and a central
pillar in the structure.

By positioning the architecture as a bridge that connects

the overwhelming city and the sky, the image of a vast
house emerges. It is the skeleton of the space itself that
folds the space loosely.

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Published on June 18, 2021

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