K Villa by Katsufumi Kubota is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Varahina in Famolavolana Maritrano, Trano ary Rafitra Competition Category.

VarahinaMaritrano· 2022

K Villa

by Katsufumi Kubota

Client: Kubota Architect Atelier

A' Design Award Varahina Winner in Maritrano Category

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The Design

About K Villa

Ny K dia villa any Nasu, Tochigi, Japon. Ny gorodona, ny rindrina ary ny tafo dia raisina ho fiaramana manify mitokana fa tsy volume mifanaraka. Andry manify miaramivalo 90 milimetatra no manohana ny takelaka simenitra vy natao amboarina, ka toa maivana ny rafitra. Ny ambany amin'ny takelaka tsirairay izay misy endrika mihena dia asiana fitaratra fandalovan-tavy vy tsy misy vy (stainless steel), izay maneho ny tontolo manodidina. Nafenina ho kely indrindra ny fisarahana anatiny, ka mifanaraka tsara ny efitrano tsirairay. Ny tanjon'ny famolavolana dia ny hampifandray ny fiainana andavanandro amin'ny natiora manodidina ny trano.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Varahina

Nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ny famolavolana K Villa, fankasitrahana malaza be omena ny famolavolana miavaka izay mampiavaka ny fahaiza-mamorona, ny fahazotoana ary ny fahamaotinan-tsaina. Ny mpandresy Varahina dia zavatra vita tanana mahay dia mahay ary mamorona mivantana izay manamafy ny traikefa be dia be, ny sarintsaina ary ny fahaizan-kafoy an'ny mpamolavola azy. Andrasana ho zavatra ankasitrahana be, ankafizina ary tiana, mahay amin'ny asa sady vaovao ny famolavolana K Villa. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ity dia mitahiry ny fomba fanao tsara indrindra amin'ny zavakanto, ny siansa, ny famolavolana ary ny teknolojia, ary tsara indrindra amin'ny fitandremana ny antsipirihany. Ny famolavolana K Villa dia mahafa-po ny filana tsara, mikasika ny faniriana, mahasarika ny fihetseham-po ary misarika ny fahalianana.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The floors,walls,and roofs are refined as two-dimensional surfaces to the extreme.They are not joined together but are kept as separate components,either underground,above ground,or in the air where they need to be,composing the architecture.The overlapping and shifting of the abstract slabs lose their thickness and mass and seem to float,creating a space with ambiguous divisions where all areas converge into a loosely connected architecture.The architecture that revives connection erases the boundaries between the planar and sterical,inside and the outside,and between various realms.Thus the mind fuses with nature,and the mind integrated into the infinitely expanding nature leads to the essential richness and boundless freedom.This architecture is K Villa.
Dimensions & Packaging: Site area 517.12 m2 Building area 105.16m2 Total floor area 95.69m2
Tags: Japan, Villa, Minimal, Modanism, Concrete
Production Technology: reinforced concrete
Design Challenge: The distance from the office to the site was about 1,000 km, and the coronavirus raged during the construction, so it was not easy to supervise the site. I think that supporting the roof with 90Φ thin pillars in Japan, which is an earthquake-prone country, will be the limit.
Research: We are meant to coexist with the infinite expanse of nature.However,buildings are on the contrary and have been developed to separate the mind and from nature an much as possible.Thus when a building intervenes between the mind and nature,it severs the connection between the two,reinforces isolation,and slowly grows the darkness and coldness in the mind.Without realizing it,the mind creaks and becomes crooked.K Villa creates an architecture that overturns this process.
Inspiration: The pressures of relating with others,however small and common they may be,cause our hearts to close,stagnate and obscure without our knowing.Our desires to be liberated from these pressures push us to update ourselves through superficial entertainment and joy and yet,our hearts remain clenched still,slowly eating away our energy to live.In order to reverse and break away from this flow,we must connect our hearts to an infinitely freer power,and to inspire a breath of new life.K Villa we create here will be planned so that it functions as a medium that induces response and fosters a relationship between both sides.
Project Duration: Design from 2015 to 2019 Construction from 2019 to 2020. Location: Nasu,Tochigi,Japan
Operation Flow: Completed without joining thin pillars with only 90Φ and slabs on the floor, walls, and roof, this K Villa gently connects to the outside nature, and attempts to transfer nature on the back of the tapered slab with a stainless mirror surface.
Team Members: Katsufumi Kubota, Kazuya Toizaki, Kazu Kubota, Masayuki Kubota,Naoya Yuda
Image Credits: Katsu Tanaka