AD Classics: Koshino House Designed by Tadao Ando

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Special for home lovers, here is the unique building of Koshino House. This house is perfectly designed by Tadao Ando. The Koshino House stands in Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan. This house features two parallel concrete rectangular confines. Uniquely, part of the building is buried into the sloping ground of a national park. In the northern volume of the house, it is designed with a two-storey height. On the first floor, it contains a double height living room, a kitchen and a dining room. While on the second floor, it includes the master bedroom and a study place. What do you think? The construction of the house is very unique, right?

More detailed news of Koshino House

What we are just talking above is in the northern volume of Koshino House. What about the southern one? The southern part of the house contains six linearly organized children’s bedrooms, a bathroom and a lobby. To connect both spaces, it is provided a stair of the courtyard. The stair will give an access to the enclosed exterior of the Koshino House. More detailed information, you can check the available description below.

A glance review of Koshino House

“According to archdaily.com, Tadao Ando’s design for the Koshino House features two parallel concrete rectangular confines. The forms are partially buried into the sloping ground of a national park and become a compositional addition to the landscape. Placed carefully as to not disrupt the pre-existing trees on the site, the structure responds to the adjacent ecosystem while the concrete forms address a more general nature through a playful manipulation of light. More about the Koshino House after the break.
The northern volume consists of a two-storey height containing a double height living room, a kitchen and a dining room on the first floor with the master bedroom and a study on the second floor. The southern mass then consists of six linearly organized children’s bedrooms, a bathroom and a lobby. Connecting the two spaces is a below grade tunnel that lies beneath the exterior stairs of the courtyard.
Ando used the space within the two rectangular prisms as a way to express the fundamental nature of the site. This space reveals a courtyard that drapes over and contours to the natural topography. A wide set of stairs follows the sloping land into the enclosed exterior space and allows the light that penetrates through the canopy of trees into the sunken courtyard. This self-governing space represents the fold of nature that has been bound by the conditioned structures and become synthetic.
Additional specification building of Koshino House:

Architect: Tadao Ando
Location: Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan
Project Year: 1980-1984
References: Yukio Futagawa, WikiArchitectura
Photographs: Gonzalo Perez, Hoiol, Kazunori Fujimoto, Mariana, Simone Catania