Tough partitions streaked with clay, soil and steel powders evoke ceramic glazes at Haniyasu Home, a house in Japan renovated by native structure studio Aatismo.
Named Haniyasu Home after the Japanese gods of earth, clay and pottery, the dwelling within the coastal city of Kamakura was designed for 2 founders of Aatismo, Keita Ebidzuka and Eriko Masunaga, and Ebidzuka’s dad and mom, each of whom are ceramic artists.
The challenge noticed the single-storey house, initially inbuilt 1967, stripped again to its timber body after a hurricane had left it structurally unsound.
Aatismo prolonged and bolstered this current construction by introducing 4 contrasting volumes at its corners, completed with a textured coating produced from waste supplies to create the impression that they’ve emerged from the earth.
“The challenge features as a residence for 2 generations: my dad and mom, who’re ceramicists, and my spouse and I, who’re architects,” principal designer Ebidzuka advised Dezeen.
“It references the composition of a primitive settlement the place life and creation are inseparable,” he added.
“By supporting the body of the prevailing home with earthen plenty that seem to have surged from the bottom, we meant to create a temporal intersection the place it’s unclear which existed first.”
The central footprint of the prevailing house has been totally given over to an atelier, front room and kitchen area, framed by the curved, textured corners of the brand new volumes. This opens out onto a terrace to the south via sliding glass doorways.
Three of the nook volumes comprise an area for every member of the family to each sleep and work, with the dad and mom’ rooms doubling as pottery-making areas and the studio members’ room lined with desks.
To the northeast, the fourth quantity homes a tea room that doubles as a visitor bed room, with flooring lined with tatami mats and a small sq. skylight within the centre of its ceiling.
Formed like trapezoidal prisms with rounded edges, the extension volumes have been constructed utilizing easy timber frames insulated and clad in timber panels.
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To complete these volumes, waste clay from the dad and mom’ ceramic follow was bisque-fired and layered over soil from the location, with a plaster blended with waste iron and copper powder from a steel workshop poured excessive.
The ensuing streaked layers, which evoke the method of glazing ceramics, have been left uncovered to create a particular end that transitions from blue-green on the prime via orangey browns and green-greys. Internally, every was given a tough, cave-like plaster end.
“In mythology, Haniyasu, the Japanese deity of earth, was born from excrement,” stated Ebidzuka.
“We translated this mythological cycle, the place new life and earth emerge from waste, into a contemporary architectural course of by utilising industrial and home waste,” he added.
“We actively utilized ceramic methods, comparable to nagashigake (glaze pouring) and the intentional oxidation of metallic powders, to introduce layers of serendipity and temporal become the structure.”
Different latest residential initiatives in Japan embody a house in Osaka by Akio Isshiki Architects, which is clad in planks of charred cedar and wrapped by shoji screens, and Home in Nakano by HOAA, which is fronted by an elevated, looping steel terrace for potted crops.
The images is by Shinya Sato.
