Light Welling House Résidence unifamiliale by Teruo Miyahara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2020
Light Welling House Résidence unifamiliale
Client: Mr. and Mrs. Uc
A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Architecture Category
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About Light Welling House Résidence unifamiliale
La Light Welling House est une maison individuelle construite sur une parcelle urbaine étroite à Tokyo. Le terrain est exigu et de forme irrégulière, et la lumière naturelle ne pouvait être captée ni à l'est ni à l'ouest. L'escalier a donc été conçu comme un chemin de lumière. Les marches sont en tôle perforée et la cage d'escalier est habillée de parois vitrées, si bien que la lumière du jour atteint chaque pièce et se diffuse du niveau supérieur vers les niveaux inférieurs. L'emplacement de l'escalier a été déterminé en calculant la hauteur du soleil d'hiver. Les pièces sont traitées en blanc afin de diffuser plus largement cette lumière empruntée.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Bronze
Light Welling House Résidence unifamiliale est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Light Welling House Résidence unifamiliale est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Light Welling House Résidence unifamiliale satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The client felt that a residence was a form of self exposure to the outer world. In order to live up to his expectations, this house was designed to imply the essence of the house within the urban context by bringing out the characteristics of the finishing material that was chosen. The concrete exterior walls were coated with lean mix acrylic paint, resulting in a black mottled effect according to the difference in the degree of water absorption and smoothness of the surface.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The stairs are made of perforated metal to let the light seep through, and the stairwell has glass walls to allow the light to shine into each room as well as to lead and reflect the light from the top to lower levels. The positioning of the stairs was also a critical factor and therefore designed carefully, calculating the altitude of the winter sun. Moreover, the room interior was finished in white, so that the rooms would be able to borrow light in addition to having direct sunlight.
- Tags
- Narrow site, Light well, Mottled wall, Continuous windows, Zinc coated steel sashes, Raw brass sashes
- Production Technology
- On this project we designed all furnitures, all storage, kitchen set, dining table, stool, by our original design. And also we designed big sized zinc coated steel sashes. All because we needed to keep pureness of our design for the space of this house.
- Design Challenge
- The concrete exterior walls were coated with lean mix acrylic paint, resulting in a black mottled effect according to the difference in the degree of water absorption and smoothness of the surface. The zinc coated steel sashes were dipped in phosphate to strengthen the zinc layer, and the difference in the amount of zinc coating on the sashes projected a black patchy effect.
- Research
- This house is a residence designed for a couple in their 30s and their daughter. It is standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape. The site measures approximately 57 m2 in size: approximately 12 meters deep, 6 meters across where it faces the north road, and 2.7 meters across at the deepest end. The design for this house therefore needed to focus on the ideal form of an urban detached house within the constraints of the site itself as well as laws and regulations.
- Inspiration
- This house is located in a residential area in the western part of Tokyo. The site itself is a narrow and small with the north side touching the road. Since natural lighting could not be anticipated from the east or west sides, how to bring light into the residence was a major issue that needed to be solved at a high level.
Our solution for this house to ensure natural lighting was to design the stairs as a path of light that would be able to distribute natural light to each room. - Project Duration
- The project started in April 2004 and finished in May 2005 in Tokyo Japan.
- Operation Flow
- For the interior of the house, the first floor consists of an independent bedroom and bathroom. The second floor has a main room with a ceiling that partially opens onto the third floor; this aspect and the stairs made of perforated metal also contribute to the open feel of the main bedroom and tearoom on the third floor. The partitions were made of transparent glass and Japanese paper blinds so as not to divide the atmosphere.
- Patents
- Miyahara architect office LLC
- Team Members
- Teruo Miyahara
Akira Ouchi - Image Credits
- Mitsumasa Fujitsuka
Miyahara architect office LLC
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