Montblanc House by Studio Velocity

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The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. A house for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn.

The site, surrounded by neighboring houses in 3 directions, is in a quiet residential area. Most houses in the area have only 2 stories and one is able to see the mountains far away. However, the neighboring houses and apartments stand close to the site with their windows opening on to it. So I began to consider how to create an open space in such a tightly enclosed site. The building has a gable-house-shape with a continuous exterior space from the 1st to the 3rd floor under a large inclined roof. 5 large openings in the inclined roof bring sufficient natural light and air, as well as scenery, into the building. The windows, as “voids,” lacking sashes, have a totally different scale from the windows of the neighboring houses.

That’s why there is a wondrous scale around the area as if the model had been enlarged. When you’re walking in a forest in the mountains, you feel as though you’re being gently embraced though you’re not actually inside anything. Along the path, where the wind’s breezes encircle the trees’ leaves above, where one can hear the murmur of the wind in the trees, the sounds of the birds singing, and the footsteps of creatures in the hush, there is, I think, an interior-like sense of place, a state that is wholly distinct from urban spaces or open skies. Or else, from amongst a thicket, finding a view of the city at the foot of the mountain, or the blue sky streaming through the leaves and so one encounters many such “exteriors” along the way.

Can we create a place for such experiences in a crowded residential area? One encounters “outside” at various points as you walk upstairs since the semi-exterior spaces are connected and gently covered with a large luminous roof. I hope to create a diversity of “exteriors” with the various angles and heights of the site, appropriately hiding away the views from the neighboring sites, as well as a sense of the neighboring houses’ existence.

这个小住宅的一楼是一个美容院。上面两层居住着小美容店的老板，一对年轻的夫妇，以及他们3岁的女儿和一个刚刚出身的家庭成员。

周边大多是2层的住宅，这里很安静，住宅建成3层，就可以看见远山。住宅与周围房屋的近距离使得打开窗户就没了隐私。所以建筑师考虑如何在这样一个紧迫的空间中创造出开放感。建筑师设计了一个贯通三层楼的大斜屋顶，斜屋顶的大开口带来自然光和空气，还有风景。窗户，就是洞口，没有窗扇，而且其尺寸与周围的房子完全不同。看上去就像有一个放大尺寸的有趣模型。当你行走在山间森林中，你周围没什么构筑物，但你依然能感到自己被包围。在小路上，清风吹拂，树木作响，鸟儿欢歌，动物轻轻的脚步声，那是森林之语。

建筑师想要在室内也打造出这种感觉，向城市开放或者天空开放。否则，就如同处于低处，只能透过茂密的树叶依稀的看见蓝色的天空，沿途不都是这样的“外表”么。我们能否在一个拥挤的住宅区中创建出这一切？在一个大大的光明屋顶下，你可以在几个半室外空间中遇见“外”。建筑师希望创造一个外向的住宅，同时避规周围建筑从各个方向和角度而来的视线。

Photographer: Kentaro Kurihara

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