Hironaka Ogawa & Associates: www.ogaa.jp
RESIDENTIAL, MEMORY, RE-USE
This is an extension project on a thirty-five year-old house for a daughter and her husband. A Zelkova tree and a Camphor tree stood on the site since the time the main house was build thirty-five years ago. Removing these trees was one of the design requirements because the new additional building could not be built if these trees remained. Therefore, utilizing these trees and creating a new place for the client became the main theme for the design.When this house is demolished and another new building constructed by a descendant of the client hundreds of years from now, surely these two trees will be reused in some kind of form.
Architect : Hironaka Ogawa (Hironaka Ogawa & Associates)
Photographer: Daici Ano
Function : private house
Location : Kagawa , Japan
Structure : wood frame
Site area : 699.54 sqm
Architectural area : 50.90 sqm
Total floor area : 50.90 sqm
completed date : 2010
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