Not A Hotel
Client
Client
Not A Hotel
Not A Hotel
Type
Type
Private Residence
Private Residence
LOCATION
LOCATION
Yakushima
Yakushima
,
,
Japan
Japan
About
About
International Competition
International Competition
The project is born from the desire to frame the landscape, capturing the mountain peaks visible from the site and making them the protagonists of the interior experience. The architecture does not seek to impose itself, but to construct a frame through which the act of looking becomes a way of inhabiting.
From this intention emerges the pitched roof, conceived as a climatic response to the island's heavy rainfall and as the archetypal image of shelter. As a gesture towards Japanese vernacular architecture, the roof planes are gently curved, evoking the silhouette of the mountain. The elevation of one of these planes creates an interstitial upper space through which zenithal light and natural ventilation are introduced, turning the roof into an active environmental device.
The project is born from the desire to frame the landscape, capturing the mountain peaks visible from the site and making them the protagonists of the interior experience. The architecture does not seek to impose itself, but to construct a frame through which the act of looking becomes a way of inhabiting.
From this intention emerges the pitched roof, conceived as a climatic response to the island's heavy rainfall and as the archetypal image of shelter. As a gesture towards Japanese vernacular architecture, the roof planes are gently curved, evoking the silhouette of the mountain. The elevation of one of these planes creates an interstitial upper space through which zenithal light and natural ventilation are introduced, turning the roof into an active environmental device.
Through a longitudinal extrusion of the volume, whose ends are twisted in opposite directions, the house is organized into three programmatic blocks: sleeping, living, and spa. This operation orients the principal spaces towards the mountain while the resulting geometry offers panoramic views along the entire perimeter.
The house is configured as a sequence of spaces that frame, filter, and amplify the landscape, making Yakushima not a backdrop, but the true interior of the project.
Through a longitudinal extrusion of the volume, whose ends are twisted in opposite directions, the house is organized into three programmatic blocks: sleeping, living, and spa. This operation orients the principal spaces towards the mountain while the resulting geometry offers panoramic views along the entire perimeter.
The house is configured as a sequence of spaces that frame, filter, and amplify the landscape, making Yakushima not a backdrop, but the true interior of the project.
Credits
Credits
Project
Project
Brollo Baldo Studio
Brollo Baldo Studio
Credits
Credits
Visualization
Visualization
Brollo Baldo Studio
Brollo Baldo Studio
Credits
Credits
