Koshino House

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Koshino House, which is located in Ashiya- a town located between Osaka and Kobe- is built by the Japanese architect, Todao Ando. This house. The client is three sisters, who are fashion designers. Needs of the clients are not addressed in any pages of the websites, but they would need a house that gradually harmonizes with the natures.





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Todao Ando has a strong background in Japanese culture; therefore, his style and religion is influenced his idea of architecture and design. Ando emphasizes nothingness and empty space to represents the simplicity. Due to the simplicity of the exterior, construction and organization of the space are relatively potential in order to represent the aesthetic of sensation.





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This house features two parallel and rectangular concrete confines. Located on a mountainside densely wooded, the House Koshin is embedded in the ground, the house is placed carefully, not to disturb the environments nearby-The entire house is designed to boost awareness of nature-. The space between two concretes express the fundamental natures of the surrounding environments. This space reveals the courtyards courtyard that drapes over and contours to the natural topography. A wide set of stairs follows the sloping land into the enclosed exterior space and allows the light that penetrates through the canopy of trees into the sunken courtyard. This self-governing space represents the fold of nature that has been bound by the conditioned structures and become synthetic.