House in Sinjyo Residential Building by Kiyoshi Sugimoto

House in Sinjyo Residential Building by Kiyoshi Sugimoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.

SilverArchitecture· 2021

House in Sinjyo Residential Building

by Kiyoshi Sugimoto

Client: Kiyoshi Sugimoto

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About House in Sinjyo Residential Building

House in Sinjyo is a single-story residential building in Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan. The site sits below a busy national highway bypass, so the house has no openings on the outer walls, which protects the privacy of the couple who live there. A square plan fills the small flat area of the sloping site. A light court on the south side brings in light and air, and is shared by the living room and the bathroom. The court is set two steps above the living room. A wall that stops below the ceiling divides the living area from the water area. The structure is wooden.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

House in Sinjyo Residential Building is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. House in Sinjyo Residential Building is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. House in Sinjyo Residential Building is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Unique Properties: The site is located in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, overlooked by a step down from a busy national highway bypass.
The couple who built the house requested privacy from the national highway and a simple space like a hotel to relax for the two of them.
Dimensions & Packaging: Site area　373.56m2　
Building area　110.69m2
Total floor area　94.26m2
Tags: House,Residential,Light Court,Square,One-story
Production Technology: Wooden construction
Design Challenge: We focused on creating an open space despite the wooden structure's structural limitations.
Research: A study of the floor plan to achieve two contradictory goals at the same time: to let light and wind into the living space while blocking sound and sight from the bypass.
Inspiration: The site is almost a slope. We planned the maximum building area in a square on the small amount of flat land, with no openings outside for privacy.
A spacious light court is placed on the south side of the house, shared by the living room and bathroom.
A single wall that does not reach the ceiling separates the LDK from the water area to enjoy the light court space without being too segmented.
We set the light court two stairs higher than the living room to feel closer to the outside.
Project Duration: Completion year:2018
Location:Tanabe,Wakayama,Japan
Operation Flow: The light court inserted into the square mass works as a device to collect light while protecting the privacy and gives the living room more space than its area.
Team Members: Kiyoshi Sugimoto
Tomohiro Tatsukawa
Image Credits: Photo/Hirofumi Imanishi