Kirsten Dirksen
With most of their micro-studios unrented, a family in Chiba, Japan was ready to demolish their 8-unit apartment building, but architect Kazuyasu Kochi convinced them to rework it into a Cubist-inspired single-family home.
In a country where the lifespan of the mostly wooden homes is only a few decades, Kochi’s rehab proposal was innovative, though his design proved to be one-of-a-kind. Inspired by the Cubist representation of 3-dimensional forms in 2 dimensions, Kochi set out to create a 3-D reality that felt 2-D.
He began by cutting a hole in the middle of the building to connect the 8 tiny rooms. To keep the project affordable, he used large pieces of plywood to shape the new rooms, dividing and connecting the space.
Cutting 2D shapes (triangles and quadrangles) out from the former 3D apartment grid. By ensuring that the 2D shapes didn’t follow the grid, he juxtaposed two different types of depth. With his vivid 4-color scheme, the reassembled home feels like a Cubist patchwork of optical illusions.
Kazuyasu Kochi: http://www.kkas.sakura.ne.jp/apartment-house
Original story: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/8-vacant-micro-studios-reassembled-as-1-cubist-family-home/
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Beautiful house, but as a structural engineer, I'm not sure how I feel about it in highly seismic Japan. Thank you fr your excellent videos Ms. Dirksen.
M encantó!! Yo quiero una casa ASI!!👏👏👏👏
Concept is interesting……..but what is up with adults that require their privacy, yet decide the kids get none? If you want them to be accessible and easy to communicate with, make the rooms small – just for sleeping – and the main living spaces really large and useful?
Cubist house is the right term
This is a really cool looking house! I also like the chandeliers.
Love this!!
This house is awesome!
OMG! I might be late on this but if you turn on english translation for when the man speaks to the little girl at 0:54 it says: „Orchid a victorious omelet you still gotta go“ hahahahha
Brilliant and daring.
It looks like a Tim Burton movie set! I love it
It's like a playhouse, the way the kids can run a ring around upstairs while peeking in on what's going on downstairs. Perfect for keeping the youngsters active considering there's not really a yard to play outside in.
I'm in Love with this. So interesting in every way and directions.
wow! such a fancy interior design!
By far one of my favourite interior structures I've seen yet, so creative and artistic. Amazing to see a home with a different perspective towards artistic design. I love your channel, spent the majority of last week watching your videos and as a 15 year old it's given me much interest and hope to do something edgy with a home like I've always wanted. It's been my dream to be a interior designer but I thought it was nearly impossible for me to achieve in the UK growing up with no concept towards structures, however after sliming across your channel I have been inspired. I feel this is something I want to be doing and exploring later on. Thank you for I enlightening me and showing us all architecture we rarely come across in day to day lives.
This place is super cool.
This house is such a piece of art! I would love to, at least, stay for a couple of weeks. So interesting with all the angles! I just love it!
wow. cool
Very unique and interesting. I don't normally feel compelled to need to shut myself away or anything. But, really, the lack of privacy really puts me off here. I've never seen the thinking behind things like the parents getting privacy, but the children never have the option. like "Well, yeah obviously the parents have to have privacy" and just brush off the kids, or be adamant cause you wanna watch every little move. I can understand like putting a tv in the master bedroom, but not one in the kid's rooms and stuff. But the ability to have privacy in your own home should be an equal privilege across the board. I'm not saying let the kids shut themselves away and parents cant come into their 8 year old's room without asking for permission and just leaving anytime they say they want privacy. Not at all.
But, it's just one of those things that I feel should be mutual for anyone in the home. Everyone should have the ability to all feel equally as comfortable. This seems like it'd grow to be very uncomfortable and disliked by the kids. Maybe I'm wrong. There's plenty of families that are just tight knit like that. But I can just imagine the paranoia creeping on, you can't mumble out a cuss if you stubbed your toe, no phone call isn't being listened in on, or whatever. There's a whole list of things you could imagine that could pop up as a result of lack of privacy.
But again, maybe it works just fine.
Just for me, in my home, I like being able to find solace at practically any moment, and I'd like my guests and others too as well. I plan on building my own tiny home, and I understand that's not exactly the route you'd go looking for privacy, there's only so much you can do. But I'll be making sure it's not as if only one person is able to find a comfortable peaceful and "private" area at a time.
gorgeous. would so live here.
2:16 No one's questioning the fact that they're looking right into the bathroom from the outside.
This house looks so dangerous! Open spaces up high where children are running around. I'd be so scared for my kids
this house is MAGNIFIQUE!
i saw Honda HRV
cool
Interesting home ! I love this channel are there any other similar channels ?
it's beautiful but no intimacy :/
Interesting designs but not a fan of the colors pink and blue in the house. Not in love with plywood all over place.
Interesting design but I can imagine sweeping and dirt falling through the cutout or mopping and water dripping down
nice design 🙂
so cool!
I like how the Japanese are not into stainless steel appliances or granite counter tops like the Americans.
Looks like a waste of space and impractical. But it's artsy though.
Amazing design. Would have been a complex project to tackle with all those angles, particularly within a pre-existing structure! Great colours and wood treatment! Love it!
when the girls grow older they'd hate these 'no privacy' rooms imo
this house screams fire hazard
Fantastic approach, Love what the architect suggested instead of demolishing the home
Is the best! Thanks Kirsten keep it up!
Whoa!
Brilliant!!!
What a wonderful idea. The home is perfect and so much fun. Everybody stays connected and in touch with each other in the home yet they also have there own space. Beautiful job.
please continue to make more videos!! 🙂 I have finished watching all your videos and rewatch them a few times lol…
how cool was the kid on the unicycle.. amazing skills and balance
I would have liked to seen it as a rehabbed apartment complex.
This home is artistic without it being overbearing I love it. And when he closed the door to the master bedroom I would have given him my mizuage then and there! Sexy!
That's incredible..I especially like the one video from the top corner overlooking the living room…nice little work or reading nook.
its interesting, but I feel like it would have looked nicer had he not used plywood, or had he at least fully painted the plywood. It might be an effect that doesn't translate well to video, but I feel like it looks, I suppose incomplete. The colors look great but it looks rather cheap. Also at one point you show a hole leading into the bathroom, I'm not sure if you can see into that normally or if they had the camera on a pole but that would probably freak me out.
As always, another great clip. I like how the exterior is very traditional and then, wow, a very "Alice in Wonderland" interior. Nice to visit, but I wouldn't like to live there. Here in NZ we build mostly in wood, but we have a minimum of a 50yr life, but we have homes over 100yrs old where the wood has been naturally harden by age to a state, that nails can not be nailed into it. That's if the wood hasn't been infested by "borer" or "termites."