Home in Shikenbaru / Studio Cochi Architects

Home in Shikenbaru / Studio Cochi Architects

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The home is a residence for a pair and their 4 youngsters, inbuilt a village close to the ocean in southern Okinawa. Outdoors the village are fields, and in Okinawa, the place there isn’t any snow or frost, greens that will be grown in spring or summer time in Honshu may be harvested all year long.

The proprietor of the home runs a farm right here, producing okra, inexperienced beans, papaya, and different greens. His work is finished from earlier than dawn till round 10:00 a.m., harvesting and dealing outdoors. Through the daytime when the solar is robust, he selects what he has harvested within the shaded work space, and within the night when the solar goes down, he works outdoors once more, thus adapting to the surroundings. This home additionally wanted to be a spot for farm work and to be in concord with the native actions and the Okinawan surroundings. 

The format and quantity had been determined primarily based on the encircling surroundings and the course of the wind within the space, and since there was loads of room on the positioning, it was determined to construct a one-story home. The positioning was initially surrounded by a block wall, however this was eliminated in order that tractors and cultivators may simply enter the positioning from any course, and a vacant lot was created across the constructing to offer a spot to retailer instruments mandatory for farming and to permit for continuity with indoor work. 

The constructing is just constructed with a steady vaulted ceiling of various heights over a steady earthen flooring inside and outside. The vault stretches from north to south, crossing the inside and exterior, and the deep eaves function a semi-outdoor intermediate space between the inside and the backyard, in addition to a corridor for daytime farming. The continual east-west vaulted ceiling offers rhythm to the complete area of the easy plan, and the pure gentle getting into via the gaps between the roof and partitions creates a gradation. 

The valley on the prime of the vault is full of soil, which acts as an insulator towards the sturdy Okinawan solar, and ivy crops equivalent to ardour fruit and bougainvillea cowl the complete floor of the vaulted roof. As well as, the proprietor, who’s a farmer, is rising fruit and veggies in line with the completely different depths of soil in every part and is trying ahead to seeing what greens can be harvested from the roof this summer time, one yr after the completion of development.