Passage of Landscape

Masaki Ihara

Outline: This two-story wooden house stands on a site with vast terraced rice paddies to the south and west. A series of gate-shaped frames create a north-south orientation on the first floor and an east-west orientation on the second floor, creating a skip floor structure. The openings on the second floor, which give the impression of a facade, are made of FIX glass and wooden doors that open in one direction, bringing ambient sound and light into the room.

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