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Complex House by Tomohiro Hata
This house in Nagoya by Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata has five roofs that pitch in opposing directions.
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This alternating roof creates a series of triangular windows on the first floor of the two-storey residence, which the architect named Complex House.
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A recessed corner entrance interrupts the ridged metal cladding, which also encloses a courtyard.
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Tomohiro Hata also designed a house with a three-storey wooden house hidden inside it - see this story here and see more Japanese houses on Dezeen here.
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Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.
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Here's a description of the project from Hata:
We examine a row of small rooms towards the depth on demand of a client who wants many small rooms.
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After the order fixed, we examined each width depending on suitable scales of the rooms.
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We edit composition of the sections.
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They melt together or overlap each other on the first floor and are integrated in the space for the family.
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Come to think of it, a family is the smallest unit of social groups and to build a house like this way might be natural consequence and effective way in the time that individuality is naturally respected among his or her family.
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Besides, we take client apart to individuals at the same way of planning "complex house".
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Then we examine and express clearly the rules or orders for them to let each of them essentially participate to the planning process.
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In this way, we could propose such dwelling space that somewhat different from existing one.
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Title: Complex House
Location: Nagoya, Japan
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Design: Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
Construction year: 2011
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Site area: 107.30m2
1F area: 54.43m2
2F area: 45.81m2
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Total area:100.24m2
Structure: Wooden
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