Villa Saitan --- EASTERN Design Office --- 翻译

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Villa Saitan / EASTERN Design Office

Architects: EASTERN Design Office + HOJO Structure Research Institute

Location: Kyoto, Japan

Client: Shigekazu Yagi

Constructor: Minobe Construction Corporation

Site Area: 301.82 sqm

Total Floor Area: 557.70 sqm

Project Year: 2006

Photographs: Koichi Torimura

The site is in Nishioji-hachijo, Kyoto. From the main street we enter into a covert place along an alley of 4 meters in width.

This construction is a collective housing consisting of 11 units. The impersonality of segmental housing complex is completely concealed in this architecture. Instead it is built to be seen as one big house.

The architecture is covered with a wall in which holes are cut. The shape of the holes resembles a trunk, leaves, a root and bulbs. It also can be seen as clouds floating over the trees.

Concrete shape which is based on nature turns into a hollow cave, light, and sunbeams filtered through trees.

The idea of windows like sunbeams filtered through trees has developed with the following methods: lined up balconies of average collective housing are completely hidden here ・　there is no balcony for each room ・ the ceiling height of one room is raised　・　dwelling units are elevated one meter from the ground　・　floor level of entrance and apartments is different・ center of the wall surface is curved ・ the center of the façade of the architecture is sculptured ・ a curved winding slit is made on the curved wall surface ・ the shape of the holes matches with the winding slit ・ the result is one shape of a plant growing roots undulating from it.

Since curved holes are made on a carved wall surface, it is physically inevitable that the section of holes is also twisted. This distortion resembles the shape of plants and the organic and free style of nature.

The entrance to the house is from the root carved into the center of the front wall. An inner pathway peculiar to Kyoto can be found there. An inner pathway is a narrow corridor which runs from street to street and from lot to lot.

In this project the inner path is connected to the garden of the town house of the client. He manages this collective housing by himself. It is his daily routine to do sweeping, arranging flowers at the entrance, and watering the path. Thus he enjoys his post-retirement years.

This land was once the site of NIshihachijo-palace, which was the residence of a hero of the Japanese classical tragedy, “Tale of Heike.” It was a stage of rise and fall of a clan in the 12th century. Such an old and sad memory is cherished and still told among the people of this neighborhood.

The collective housing that is built on such a historical place should not be seen as an average apartment house. Such notion occurred to us, which might have led us to the idea of an “immortal tree.”

We, therefore, designed a building which does not take vaguely a shape of a tree, but rather an intense and massive form with a tint of movement.

The lot size is 16m×19m. This architecture gives an answer how to build a low collective housing in a quiet but dense place.

What does the name Saitan mean? Tan is the color of the shrine gates, vermilion. It is also the color of pale red granite stone. Vermilion will not be weathered. It is said that vermillion is a sacred color and it used to be applied on serving dishes and bow and arrow to make them holy ones. Sai means variety of beautiful colors that make something more attractive.

Saitan 住宅 /
东方设计事务所

建筑设计：东方设计事务所 + HOJO 结构研究院

建设地点：日本 京都

业主：Shigekazu Yagi

建筑单位：Minobe 建筑公司

用地面积：301.82平方米

建筑面积：557.70平方米

建设日期：2006年

摄影：Koichi Torimura

建筑座落在京都市的Nishioji-hachijo。我们从主干道上通过一个4米宽的小巷进入了一个隐蔽的空间。

这个建筑是由11个单元组成的，这个复杂的居住集合体完全被隐藏在了整个建筑中，看起来就好像是一个大的房子。

建筑被布满洞口的墙体所包围。洞口的形状看起来就像是树干，树叶，植物的根茎，也可以看做是飘过树枝的云朵。

以大自然为基础的混凝土造型看起来就像是山洞，在这里，阳光覆盖着树丛。

这种阳光穿过树枝般的窗户的概念是通过下面的手法实现的：普通的直线型的阳台在这里被完全隐藏了·并不是每个房间都有阳台·升高的房间屋顶·高于室外地平一米的居住单元·不同标高的入口空间与居住空间·弯曲的墙面·雕塑状的建筑立面·弯曲墙面上切出的弯曲裂口·与弯曲裂口形状吻合的洞口·这一切的就形成了犹如植物生长的根部一样的弯曲形态。

当在弯曲的墙面上开出弯曲的洞口时，这些洞口就自然的拥有了扭曲的剖面。这种失真与扭曲就像是植物和其他有机物一样呈现出符合自然的自由形态。

建筑的入口从雕刻的根部一直延伸到正墙的中间。在这里可以找到一条独特的通往京都的内部路径。这条内部的路径是一条连接街道与街道、地块与地块的狭窄的走廊。

这个建筑中有一条小路一直链接到业主别墅的花园，整个建筑由业主一个人管理。在他退休以后，管理入口的花园，清扫小路就将成为他的日常工作。

这个地块是Nishihachijo地区中的一块，Nishihashijo是日本经典悲剧中一个英雄的居住地，来源于“Heike的传说”，这是关于12世纪一个家族的兴衰史。这个古老而且悲伤的故事一直被这个地区的居民传唱至今。

在这样一个充满历史的地方建设起来的一座房屋不同于一般的房子，它带给我们一个有关于“不朽之树”的概念。

然而，我们并不只是创造出了一个像树的形状的建筑，它更多的是表现出了一种强烈的活力和运动感。

建筑基地面积是16米乘以19米。这个建筑为如何在一个单调切高密度的地方建设一个并不拥挤的仿佛给出了答案。

建筑的名字“Saitan”是什么意思呢？Tan是圣地大门的颜色，朱红色，它同样是暗红色花岗岩的颜色。朱红色不会被风化而变色。据传说，朱红色是神的颜色，它曾经被用在食器和弓箭上来使它们变得神圣。Sai的意思是各种各样漂亮的颜色，可以使得任何东西变得更具吸引力。

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挺漂亮的小房子，就是感觉外壳仅仅就是为了做个外壳和内部空间联系不大。