With Four Children House by Ryuji Yamashita is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2022
With Four Children House
Client: Toshiharu Yamashita
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About With Four Children House
A house for a couple and their four children. There is a playroom in the center of the house, and four children's rooms are located facing each other. There are steps and windows between them. When the children open the window, the floor becomes a big desk where they study face to face. The four children's rooms become an integrated space and are connected to the first floor because the desks are made of glass. It is a space that connects the family at various distances.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
With Four Children 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. With Four Children 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. With Four Children House splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
We learn a lot from our childhood experiences and from nature.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
It is about enriching the family that lives in the house.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
It is to live long as a house.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The four children's rooms were placed facing each other, with steps and windows between them.
When the children open the windows, the floor becomes a large desk, and they study face-to-face.
The four children's rooms become an integrated space, and the desk is made of glass to connect to the first floor.
It became a space where families can be connected with various senses of distance. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Site area 300.38m2
Building area: 69.56m2
Total floor area 125.65m2
1st floor: 63.35m2 2nd floor: 62.30m2
Eave height 7,176mm
Highest height 7,450mm - Production Technology
- When I was a child, I was given a study desk.
But I never used it.
It was painful for me to study facing the wall.
A study desk limits where you can put things, and you can't spread out a sheet of paper. I was restricted in what I could write.
The study desk became a stumbling block and eliminated many possibilities.
In this house, the floor becomes the desk. The space is a big table.
You can sit at the desk or run around. You can even draw big pictures.
This expands the possibilities for the child. - Design Challenge
- Since most of the people living in the area knew each other, privacy had to be considered.
- Research
- Type of Research: House Design
Research Objective: To enrich people's lives
Methodology: Leaving margins that allow for change.
Tools: CAD, CG, models
Participants: None
Result: Residents' lives are richer.
Impact: spillover of the importance of creating space without function - Inspiration
- A house for a couple and their four children.
The client wanted to give each child a private room.
The four children are close in age and play together all the time.
We were concerned that having a private room would divide the family, so we decided to create a space where the children can feel connected even when they are in their own rooms. - Project Duration
- June 2021 to October 2021
- Operation Flow
- Four children's rooms were placed across from each other, with steps and windows between them.
When the children open the windows, the floor becomes a large desk.
The four children's rooms become an integrated space.
The desks are connected to the first floor by glass.
The space became a place where the family is connected at various distances. - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Ikuya Sasaki, Photography, 2021.Image #2: Photographer Ikuya Sasaki, Photography, 2021.Image #3: Photographer Ikuya Sasaki, Photography, 2021.Image #4: Photographer Ikuya Sasaki, Photography, 2021.Image #5: Photographer Ikuya Sasaki, Photography, 2021.
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