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The Circus Vacation House by Hitoshi Saruta - Cubo Design Architect

The Circus Vacation House by Hitoshi Saruta - Cubo Design Architect is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.


SilverArchitecture· 2023

The Circus Vacation House

by Hitoshi Saruta - Cubo Design Architect

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About The Circus Vacation House

The Circus is a vacation house designed as a relaxed retreat for a client who enjoys cars and for visiting friends. The guiding concept is spending time with cars. Unlike a typical house with a built-in garage, the layout blurs the boundaries between people, cars, and rooms. The form is inspired by a circus tent. A large volume with twenty-four sides contains an independent inner volume shaped like a wide round table, which forms the second story. The supporting core uses no posts, and tension is maintained by slanted outer walls.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

The Circus Vacation House 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. The Circus Vacation House 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. The Circus Vacation House is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Where to Get It

Innovative Residential Architecture

We create bold architectural designs that reimagine residential living. Our Tokyo-based studio specializes in vacation homes and unique residences that blur traditional boundaries between spaces. With our award-winning expertise, we transform your vision into extraordinary architectural realities.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
“Spending time with cars” is the concept behind this vacation house intended as a fun retreat for a car-loving client and friends. In contrast to a typical house with a built-in garage, the aim here was to blur the boundaries between people, cars, and rooms in a relaxed environment.
Inspiration
Inspired by a circus tent, the simple but bold structure is made up of a large 24-sided volume and an independent volume inside shaped like a large, round table that forms the second story. The core that supports the tent has no posts, but instead maintains its tension through slanted outer walls.
Team Members
Hitoshi Saruta
Cubo Design Architect
Image Credits
Photographer : Koji Fujii / TOREAL

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