Gallege Residential House by Michihiro Matsuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2021
Gallege Residential House
Client: Michihiro Matsuo: METAPH ARCHITECT ASSOCIATES
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Gallege Residential House
Open and impressive architecture with windows throughout the road. It is a garage house where three hobby cars can be parked on a small site in a residential area, and the car and people's lives are balanced appropriately, and the architecture itself is evaluated as a skillful design that is a gallery. And although the composition of the space is very simple, the continuous windows arranged in the horizontal direction form a beautiful and well-balanced facade.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Gallege Residential House is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Gallege Residential House is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Gallege Residential House splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- An open and impressive building with three hobby cars parked on a small land in the city and windows throughout the road. This large space and large opening are formed by a wooden structure. The space is simply constructed, with a series of horizontally arranged windows forming a beautifully balanced façade.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Site area: 139.55 Size: 258.35 Structure: Timber Floor: 3 performs structural analysis to wooden structures are frequently used in Japan, using a bonding hardware and large section glulam, it can constitute a large space
- Tags
- ハウス, レジデンス , ウッド , 建築
- Production Technology
- Complex and daring space configuration is building strength will be anxiety. Sufficient structural analysis was carried out to safely construct this open house, and it was constructed firmly and safely using large-section laminated wood and metal joints. In Japan, which is an earthquake-prone country, structural calculations are extremely important and the utmost consideration is being given to the heavy use of wood structures.
- Design Challenge
- As an urban residential area, we will realize a rich and open life and protect the privacy of residents. A highly open design is realized with a wooden structure, contributing to low carbonization. In addition, ensuring excellent design while ensuring earthquake resistance in Japan, which is a country with many earthquakes, is a major issue.
- Research
- Verification of openness and privacy of houses planned in urban areas. Held a tour in the field, we conducted a questionnaire from a third party, to explore.
- Inspiration
- Houses built in urban areas are often designed to be closed. Consider designing large open homes in urban areas, focusing on windows that connect to society. In order to ensure the privacy and openness, it is necessary to avoid the crossing of the eyes of passers-by and residents, but the privacy of securing is also possible when you consider the position of each of the line-of-sight.
- Project Duration
- The project was completed in Hyogo, Japan in November 2020
- Operation Flow
- The first floor is mainly used as a garage. The living space is located on the second floor and above. It has become a openness residential, but fine devised to line-of-sight does not intersect with the passers-by have been made.
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- Copyrights
- Team Members
- Construction company: Advance Architects,inc
- Image Credits
- Michihiro Matsuo: METAPH ARCHITECT ASSOCIATES
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