The Weekend House by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
This weekend house is located on the Japanese mountainside of Izu-san, where the Pacific Ocean can be looked down at from the southern part of the residence, making the living within a magnificent experience.The project was assigned to Mount Fuji Architects Studio in 2007; the architects where to asked to design a weekend house in a site which was rather untouched by the human hand. The intact wilderness of the land on mount Izu-san was covered with deciduous broad-leaved trees such as cherry trees and Japanese oaks. The architects “saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge” of the mountain. They didn’t want to create elaborate architecture which would bow before the complex topography of the area, nor did they want to form an undulating landscape speckled with trees all over. Their “abstraction to nature” was the main concept behind their design, as they created a blueprint for perfectly autonomous architecture which seems as if it emerges as an underlying shape under the hidden natural environment.
The weekend house by mount fuji architects studio
Location: Izu-San, Japan
Site area:988.58 square meters
Building area:232.77 square meters
Total floor area:279.92 square meters
Structure: Reinforced concrete structure
Design: May 2007 – April 2008
Photo : Ken’ichi Suzuki
Image Courtesy of MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
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