A dwelling set within a mountain terrain in Tokyo, Japan.
The shape has been finalized rationally and organically in the forming
process of dealing with the site condition and requested function. Not
only the result of the form being organic, by paying attention to the
organic matter of the planning process, the process itself perhaps
produced the organic space. There was a 3.7m height difference and were a lot of tall trees left at
the top of the hill by the boundary of the site. Since the earth
retaining wall has been required for utilizing these trees to create the
view from the upper floor, not only the wall has been taken an
advantage of becoming as a part of the architecture, it even has been
made to grow to form the external shell. The earth retaining wall of the
lower floor has been raised in the form of a spiral shape and wrapped
around the building, involving the exterior space as an external shell
of the upper floor. The entire exterior wall of this house was formed by
this external shell. The upper floor surrounded by this wall and tall
trees was cut by glassed windows to separate from the exterior, creating
an atmosphere of dwelling directly in a rocky mountain. The functional
requirement as a house was satisfied by furniture.
