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Small House with Big Spiral Staircase by Avehideshi Architects
Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this house in Osaka, Japan, with a staircase that wraps around the house's internal perimeter.
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The Small House with Big Spiral Staircase has windows carefully placed and sized to capture views of the scenery beyond the adjacent train track and car park.
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The staircase has been placed so that the most favourable views are enjoyed as one ascends through the house and connects three stacked boxes that divide up the internal space.
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The house is on 60 square-metre site and has a studio on the ground floor, bedroom and bathroom on the first floor, and living and dining room on the second.
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Small house with big spiral staircase
This small residence is in the suburbs of Osaka on a mere 60sqm.
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It is composed of an atelier for the flower arrangement on the first floor, the bedroom and bathroom on the second floor, and the living dining rooms on the third floor.
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The site is surrounded by tracks and passing trains, a truck stop parking lot, and neighboring homes drawing close to the property line.
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At first glance, noise, exhaust, and lines of sight make this place hard to describe as an advantageous living environment.
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The theme of this residence was accepting such environs and finding a solution that makes the best of them.
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Another good look at site's surroundings shows a favorable environment extending over the top of the parking lot and neighboring houses, out of the field of vision.
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The atelier, which can signal what it has inside and has visitors even on the often avoided train track side, can be read spatially as a mixture of favorable and unfavorable aspects, depending on the height and orientation of the surroundings.
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In that vein, in rooms that look out on favorable areas, the staircase is positioned spatially in parts that do not.
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The spiral staircase and the 3 stacked boxes are complementary.
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A new awareness of the surrounding exterior scenery is created as the outside appears and disappears depending on the angle from the opening in each room facing the staircase.
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The spiral staircase, developed as if to wrap the building, though attached independently at each level, builds a new relationship with the city, a small house achieving a large expanse.
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Architects : Hideshi Ave / Hideshi Ave Architect and Associates
Location : Osaka,Japan
Principal use : personal house
Structure : steel structure, 3stories
Site area : 60.12 sqmBuilding area : 30.77 sqm
Total floor area : 92.31 sqm
Completion : June,2009
Structural engineer : Takashi Manda
Photo : Daici Ano
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