Shimogamo House with Modern Japanese Interior Setting










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Shimogamo House with Modern Japanese Interior Setting

Built in 2006, this rounded shape home was designed by local architecture firm Edward Suzuki Associates for their client who requesting to produce a house which enable the residents to be able to see green from every room and feel a sense of spaciousness inside, so that the architect was asked to select each and every furniture, furnishing, and equipment including even artwork for its interiors. This Shimogamo House is located in Kyoto-Japan, the facade of the house is masked by a circular screen of frosted glass. Flanking this rather cold, high-tech expression are warm, natural, smoked bamboo louvers to strike a pleasant contrast between the industrialized material. This house is a brief explanation of Interface along with a good example of Interface from the traditional Japanese design vocabulary named “Engawa,” which refers to peripheral corridor, from the old-style Japanese home. Engawa is the dual intermediate space ın between the outside and the inside proper. The ıdeal plan of the house is comprised of two bedrooms and related water closets about the ground level, a family room along with a Japanese room flanking a sunken patio in an L-shape within the basement along having a study, a guestroom, and related sanitary rooms, a one-room style living, dining, and kitchen boasting over a 3-meter higher ceiling about the second level, along with a pergola-clad moon-gazing terrace up on the rooftop having a panorama from the hills of Kyoto all around.





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