GALLERY

Ogawamachi is a town spread in the Natsui River basin in the northwestern part of Iwaki City. This house is located on the hills of this town with rich nature and countryside. You can see Mt. Suiseki, a symbol of Iwaki city, from the large living room window. This view was one of the reason for choosing this land.

This house is full of variety, tatami-mat entrances and Japanese-style rooms with old wooden doors, a living room with a wood stove, and a tiled western kitchen. Each room is designed according to its purpose. We paid attention to every aspects of housing design, such as the color of the walls and the shape of the windows, an entrance that separates the family flow line from the customer flow line, and floor plan that can be changed according to child’s growth, etc. The outer wall of the board was painted by the owner themselves over a week!

The home is gradually becoming familiar with our life. We are also updating by making a engawa outside the Japanese-style room and planting trees to organize the garden. Even if a construction is finished, a house is not “completion”. We have given this house the “margin to catch change” that we value when designing and building a house.