KIDOSAKI HOUSE Michael Salinas Setagaya, Osaka, Tokyo, Japan Completed in 1986 By Tadao Ando
PROGRAM: Approx. 1800 square feet, three family home for an architect, his wife, and both sets of parents. The hope is to maintain the familial bond without compromising each couple’s privacy.
N the Walls along the perimeter are meant to keep the occupant at ease from more modern threats.
The fortified Palace: Diocletian went to retire in a palace built in the 4th century a.d. within the walls, nearly 10,000 lived during a single period. the romans were concious to create space for living, interacting, enjoyment, as well as work.
Cheateau de Chambord’s [france] perimeter to kept 16th century uprisings outside.
Diocletian’s Palace [croatia] Southern boundary was less fortified for easy access to the sea.
both wall and water helped keep the Tower of London residents safe.
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the hybrid: ando utilizes a universal instinct while creating kidosaki house: wall the home off from outside ‘threats’; he mixes it with the voids, which are joints of social space, rooted in the traditional japanese machiya, utilizing the courtyard to create indoor/outdoor spaces that maximize spatial phenomena along the x-plane.
Voids form courtyard Gardens to enjoy life in within walls. the similar Geometry is notable.
Cheateau de Chambord has grand open areas fit for a French Monarch to stroll around in.
Diocletian’s Palace utilizing the void to create social space.
Hyper-urban Tokyo constructs an unparalleled condition that informally dictates architectural form. By contrast, the Japanese check the modern world at the door, favoring serenity, rooted by traditions like the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
the tower of london’s void
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Ando draws attitudes from the site, which roll into ‘ideas.’ However, Kidosaki House cannot be understood as merely one type; Douglas Graf points out, “such an orthodoxy stands mute in instances of hybridization, where typologies of form must give way to typologies of operation.” Like Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, a type envisioned for criminal justice then utilized in other operations, Kidosaki house is the result of a fusion of typologies and their repurposing. Ando melded the typology of a fortified traditional Machiya (Japanese Townhome) occupants and create spaces that nod to forward the conversation through modern dynamic social spaces.
The machiya: ous japanese urbanization cupation and
palace and the to shelter its tradition, but move means of material and
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a traditional japanese townhome that satisfies previstyles of building and tradition, while responding to and industrialization by creating space within for oclight.
(above) The Himeji Castle [Himeji, Japan] utilized curved walls a graded site to funnel intruders into a smaller space that was easier to defend. (right) Ando uses this funneling and change of terrain to direct the user how to interface and announce its entry. (Far Left) Beyond the influence of symmetry and ideal geometry found in Fortified castles, the japanese tea ceremony and the tatami mat influences Ando either directly or indirectly: a 2:1 module that shows up in the proportions for the home and in the formwork of the concrete. (Left) Diagrams explore the use of this module within the walled site.
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