A truncated stone pyramid containing a examine stands in a single nook of the introverted Takamine-cho Home, designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture.
Positioned in a inexperienced residential district in Nagoya, the stone and concrete dwelling takes cues from the pyramid of Tenayuca, an Aztec pyramid within the Valley of Mexico.
It was designed by native studio Tomoaki Uno Architects for a consumer who needed a house constructed utilizing conventional dry stone building strategies.
In accordance with the studio’s founder, as this type of masonry building is historically solely utilized in Japan “for the foundations of castles, citadel foundations, and stone partitions”, he turned to Aztec structure for concepts.
“I felt fairly uneasy and uncomfortable about utilizing this conventional Japanese masonry as a part of a constructing with a special objective,” Tomoaki Uno defined.
“I could not do away with the awkward feeling that I used to be trashing the custom, and lots of time handed with out having the ability to suggest,” he continued. “It was the pyramids of Tenayuca that introduced me out of this deadlock.”
Protruding from one nook of the house, the pyramid sits subsequent to a central courtyard and water backyard, round which the remainder of the inward-looking concrete residence has been organized.
“The general plan is to offer a sense of openness to the rooms whereas defending the non-public house surrounding the 2 gardens,” defined Uno.
The higher degree of Takamine-cho Home has an L-shaped plan containing a dwelling, eating and kitchen space, which overlooks the courtyard by way of glass curtain partitions.
On the house’s decrease ground there’s the principle bed room, alongside 4 smaller bedrooms which might be organized round a storage.
Other than the glazing overlooking the courtyard, the house incorporates only some small home windows, opting as an alternative for a collection of small skylights in its uncovered concrete ceilings.
The pyramidal examine is accessed internally by way of a gap within the dwelling house, or immediately from the road the place a projecting concrete opening sits on the prime of a staircase.
Inside, it’s lined with concrete panels and has a concrete fire. A skylight and a gap overlooking the water backyard present pure lighting.
Set in opposition to the concrete and stone, black ironwork has been used for the courtyard doorways and, internally, for the handles of sliding picket doorways and stair balustrades.
Within the basement, the bedrooms are brightened with heat pale wooden parts reminiscent of cabinets and cabinets.
Tomoaki Uno Architects was based by Uno in Nagoya in 1990. Different latest initiatives by the studio embrace Ogimachi Home, a pared-back and therapeutic residence constructed virtually completely from wooden to create a “therapeutic” environment.
The images is by Yasuo Hagiwara.