A weekend house in Nasu, Japan has recently been completed by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect and Associate. The concept for the design reveals a hidden courtyard separated by two gabled blocks. A free standing monolith block stands in the bedroom dividing the living and sleeping spaces.
Here’s some text from the Architect: ‘This is a weekend house built in the area height of above sea level 550m, in Nasu-town, Tochigi Prefecture. Though in the resort town, the road and the neighbor houses are near by the site, and it seems difficult to keep a privacy. So we aimed to make an indoor space like a Scandinavian soft interiors instead of the room open directly to the outside. The surrounding’s tall trees blur the outline of the house, and the interior, they give the abstract light, shade, and many of colors. It is one-room space that has two big windows and a concrete wall.
