House of Silence is a single family private resident
building. It is located in Shiga, Japan. The building was designed by
FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. It is a two storey building built on an area of
321,235sqm. The project was completed in 2012.
House of Silence is concrete volume building. A rough
concrete finish, shiny tiles and opening like a belfry will give you a hint of
the variation of spaces insides.
According to the Architect “client wanted to have a house
which is not influenced by the environment of its location”, so the building is
independent from its surroundings. It was designed to be noticeably cut off
from the buzzing city; not as much in terms of noise cancellation as in terms
of visual obstructions.
It is a rigid concrete volume structure with few windows.
The walls are raised like a barrier to form a protective perimeter layer. These
raised walls obstruct visual connection to the rest of the city.
A robust out shell is created by slotting together a
cubic volume and intersects planes. The rooms are divided by ceiling heights,
different floor levels, and types of light instead of walls. This was pointed out
by the Architect “this house will give you the experience of going through a
variety of sequences, like going through cloisters with the light.
Surprisingly the interior spaces of the house is open and
bright, because of the interior spaces are open towards an internal courtyard. The
court is opened to the sky. The inner courtyard is cut off from the outside
environment.
The home is connected by the circulated line of flow.
Images © Takumi Oota, Kei Nakajima
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