K 别墅 by Katsufumi Kubota is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

铜建筑· 2022

K 别墅

by Katsufumi Kubota

Client: Kubota Architect Atelier

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About K 别墅

K是一座位于日本栃木县那须的别墅。地板、墙体与屋顶被处理为纤薄独立的板面，而非彼此相连的体量。直径仅90毫米的纤细柱体支撑着钢筋混凝土楼板，使结构显得轻盈。每一块渐变收薄的楼板底面均以不锈钢镜面饰面，映照出周围的自然景致。室内隔断被削减至最低限度，使各个空间彼此流动贯通。该设计旨在将日常生活与环绕住宅的自然紧密相连。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

K 别墅是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计K 别墅将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。K 别墅出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

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