Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation by Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2020
Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation
by Ryumei Fujik and Yukiko Sato
Client: F.a.d.s
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation
This house has been renovated mainly on the first floor because 18 years the completion. The renovation required that the existing kitchen area, consisting of the kitchen, breakfast corner, and food storage, be changed to a space that can be used for various purposes. In order to respond to this demand, the food storage and corridors were eliminated, making the entire space one room wide, and the sink was changed from a wall-mounted type to an island type, making it a more space centered on the kitchen unit. It has been reborn as a calm and cozy room because it is covered with a wooden finish.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation 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. Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation 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. Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to the Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation, particularly the transformation of a traditional kitchen area into a multifunctional space, reflects a deep understanding of evolving lifestyle needs - could you elaborate on how this vision emerged and developed over the 18-year period?
The client's request for the renovation was to change the existing kitchen area, which consisted of a kitchen, breakfast corner, and pantry, into a multi-purpose family room-like space that could be used at any time, not just for breakfast.To meet this request, we removed the pantry to make the entire space a unified, spacious space, and changed the sink from a wall-mounted type to an island type, recreating the space more around the kitchen unit.
The use of spruce CLT panels from Austria in the Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation creates a striking contrast with the concrete exterior - what inspired this material choice, and how does it enhance the living experience within the space?
When the house was first completed, it was made of a single folded plate (slab), with a rectangular concrete box inserted between them to support the whole structure. The inside of this rectangular box was the kitchen area, and the surface of the box (the outer finished surface) was finished with exposed concrete in a cedar board formwork, so even though it was made of concrete, it retained the texture of wood.This time, in order to further implement the design concept at the time of the first completion, we decided to cover the inside of the box, i.e. the inside of the kitchen area, entirely with a wooden finish. Specifically, the walls and ceiling were finished with spruce CLT material (made in Austria), and the floors were made of birch wood with a similar texture.By unifying the interior with the same wooden materials, the family room space has been transformed into a calm, comfortable space.
In the Continuous Plate House 2.0 Residence Renovation, you've masterfully addressed the challenge of breaking the box-form architecture - could you share the creative process that led to the continuous plate concept and how it influenced this renovation?
As I answered in question 04, if you try to make a flat roof without a parapet, which is a roof shape that is less likely to accumulate snow due to the influence of wind, in order to cope with heavy snowfall conditions, the result is inevitably a box-shape.However, I believe that this box-shaped architecture is deeply connected to the concept of homogeneous space, which was the dominant spatial concept of the 20th century, and for many years I have been trying to find a way to overcome this somehow. This is because, to put it very simply, I believe that this concept of homogeneous space is such a big problem that it can be said to have caused global environmental problems.After much trial and error, by bending a single plate, I was able to find an architecture that had a flat roof without a parapet but was not box-shaped.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The renovation required that the existing kitchen area, consisting of the kitchen, breakfast corner, and food storage, be changed to a space that can be used for various purposes, not just at breakfast. In order to respond to this demand, the food storage and corridors were eliminated, making the entire space one room wide, and the sink was changed from a wall-mounted type to an island type, making it a more space centered on the kitchen unit. It has been reborn as a calm and cozy family room.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The size of the Kitchen area is width:3.2m by hight:2.4m by depth:7m.
- Tags
- Residence Renovation, Kitchen, spruce CLT panel, Continuous Plate
- Production Technology
- The Kitchen area is covered with spruce CLT panels (made in Austria).
- Design Challenge
- How Break a Box-form Architecture: In the original project (Continuous Plate House 1.0), it began to think from a box form at first. Although the effective idea was not able to be found out easily, as a result of repeating whether there is any method of breaking that somehow, and trial and error, composition as if the floor, the wall, and the roof were connected continuously and bent and built one plate was obtained.
- Research
- Response to a Heavy Snowfall: The principal focus of the original project (Continuous Plate House 1.0) was how we should design in response to a heavy snowfall. Since there are some examples of research that snow cannot lie easily due to the influence of a wind as for a flat roof if there is even no parapet, rather, we designed by adopting such a flat roof since 1999.
- Inspiration
- This house has been renovated mainly on the first floor because 18 years the completion. It is made by folding a plate, and a rectangular box made of concrete is inserted into it to support the whole. The outer surface of the box is finished with concrete cast in cedar board formwork, leaving the texture of wood even though it is concrete. In order to further strengthen the design concept at the completion, the entire inside of the box, that is, the kitchen area is covered with a wooden finish.
- Project Duration
- This house was first built in March 2001, and the renovation was completed in August 2019 in Fukui-city, Fukui Pref. in Japan.
- Team Members
- Ryumei Fujiki
Yukiko Sato - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Hiroshi Ueda
Image #2: Photographer Takeshi Taira
Image #3: Photographer Hiroshi Ueda
Image #4: Photographer Hiroshi Ueda
Image #5: Photographer Takeshi Taira
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