本来、日本の木造建築は、ふすまと障子で仕切られて、ほとんど壁がない、透明感そのものの建築であった。しかし、阪神大震災以降、憑りつかれた様に壁の多い建築が当たり前になってしまった。
日常的に見る住宅も、壁にわずかな開口部が空いているだけの住宅がほとんどで、透明感がない。プライバシーと耐震性の名の下に、木造の本来の良さである透明感が失われてしまった。
このプロジェクトは、必要最低限な壁を配置しそれ以外の部分は透明に仕上げ、ロールケーキのように外壁で包む構成にした。
そうすることで、プライバシーと透明感の両方を同時に獲得した木造建築をつくることに成功した。
ロールケーキに擬えた外壁にも仕掛けがある。曇りや雨の日にはシルバーグレーが際立ち、晴れた日にはライムが際立ち、夕焼けにはオレンジ色に…！４色に張り分けられた外壁が、表情を演出する。
Primarily, a Japanese wooden building was clear and transparent because Japanese building was settled by shoji and fusuma (Japanese sliding door) and which has almost no walls.
However, architecture with a lot of walls has become proper after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
Little windows are just open on a wall in most general housings, and there is no feeling of clear and transparency now.
The feeling of clear and transparency which were excellent points of wooden architecture has been lost to secure privacy and earthquake resistance.
In this project, walls were arranged by minimum required and keep the feeling of clear and transparency.
Then, those were wrapped by outer wall like a roll cake. I succeeded to make this architecture into a wooden building which has both privacy and transparency at the same time.
There is also contrivance in the outer wall like a roll cake.
The wall of galvanized steel sheets is composed in 4 colors - silver gray, sand silver, white, and lime.
Lime stands out on sunny days, silver gray stands out on cloudy and rainy days, and all colors become orange in the sunset...!
Outside walls separately lined in 4 colors produce unique expression.
