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House in Hakone, 2000-2001 return of a Japanese spatiality The house is located in Sengokuhara, Hakone, which is the most famous hot-spring town in Japan. Since it used to be the bottom of a lake resulted from ancient volcanic activities, the somma is appreciated in a distant view from the residential area. The site is a rectangular shape of 30m x 39m, on which a public road is to the east, while a private walkway is to the north.> House in Hakone, 2000-2001 The client, a sculptor who lived in the downtown of Tokyo, made up his mind to move his artist life into the place of calm and rich in nature for the sake of concentrating on producing works. In the district of Hakone, architectural design is severely restricted from a specific National Environmental Law by the Japanese Government. In a word, it is oriented to make a traditional Japanese architecture; such as, a shape of pitched roof, deep eaves, greenery plans, etc. Owing to these conditions as well as considering the client's request to build a house of, so-called, "modernism," I struggled how to reconcile a certain type of Japanese traditional building and modern houses based upon Europe.> On a line from the last work, "House in Matsubara," I was conscious of designing whole site, not specifically designing a single building in a site.
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