Hat on the Ridge 住居、ギャラリー by Kiyotoshi Mori and Natsuko Kawamura is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銅賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.
銅インテリア· 2023
Hat on the Ridge 住居、ギャラリー
by Kiyotoshi Mori and Natsuko Kawamura
Client: MDS Co., Ltd.
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in インテリア Category
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About Hat on the Ridge 住居、ギャラリー
「Hat on the Ridge（尾根の上の帽子）」は、日本・鎌倉に建つギャラリーを併設した木造二階建ての住宅である。土間は岩盤の上に直接据えられ、方形（ほうぎょう）の屋根が無柱の空間を覆っている。屋根は軒先が低く、中央が高い。四方の軒はそれぞれ跳ね上げられ、山、谷、集落、空という異なる眺望へと開かれる。こうして四つの特徴ある空間が生まれている。四隅では上階の床が地面まで吹き抜け、二つの層をつないでいる。古美術品は、日常の暮らしのスケールの中に展示されている。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Hat on the Ridge 住居、ギャラリーは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Hat on the Ridge 住居、ギャラリーは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Hat on the Ridge 住居、ギャラリーは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Earthen floor connects with the bedrock, and square roof opens to the landscape - The space was vertically diversified by adding the floor on the ground and levitating the roof over the earth. The roof lowers down towards the roof edge and heightens up in the center. Each of the four edges of the roof opens to a different view: the mountain, the valley, the village, and the sky. Responding to these rich surroundings, each edge is flipped up to make four different spaces with different views.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 2story wooden building
Width 6825mm x Depth 6825mm x Height 6970mm - Tags
- Villa, Gallery, Pit dwelling, Dorma, Cats, Vista, Mountain, Village, Sky, valley
- Production Technology
- Earthen floor connects with the bedrock, and square roof opens to the landscape. Each of the four edges of the roof opens to a different view: the mountain, the valley, the village, and the sky. Responding to these rich surroundings, each edge is flipped up to make four different spaces with different views.
- Design Challenge
- The site is covered in a soft sediment over the surface of bedrock. The site was above the road level by just the thickness of the soil, which we chose to remove by the shape of the building footprint to put the foundation directly on the bedrock. The approach from the road is dug into this soil as well, gently sloping up towards the house. By placing a structurally stable pyramid roof over the simple square-shaped plan of the house, we created a pillarless space under the single roof.
- Research
- From a gallery-like space to a house with a gallery.
When the construction was first completed, the ground floor entrance hall and upper floor bookshelves were gallery-like spaces for displaying antiques and other items that were the owner's hobby.
By displaying them within the scale of the living space, the works of art feel more familiar, and visitors can easily imagine the scene in which they will be placed in their residences. - Inspiration
- The origin of the idea is a pit dwelling that blends in with the mountain range. Removing soft sediments over the surface by the shape of the building footprint to put the foundation directly on the bedrock, a semi-subterranean-like space buried in the earth is created. The space was then vertically diversified by adding another floor above the ground and levitating the roof over the earth.
- Project Duration
- The construction started in in September 2018 and finished in May 2019 in Kamakura, Japan.
- Operation Flow
- Cut through the floor in the corners - In the corners where the roof edges were left unflipped, the upper level floor is cut through to the ground to connect the two levels.
Flip up the roof edges - Each of the four edges of the roof opens to a different view: the mountain, the valley, the village, and the sky. Responding to these rich surroundings, each edge is flipped up to make four different spaces with different views. - Team Members
- Kiyotoshi Mori
Natsuko Kawamura - Image Credits
- Photographer TOREAL Koji Fujii
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