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Garden and Sea House by Takao Shiotsuka

Anna Kidman - Friday, December 02, 2011

 

This unusual looking weekend house is the work of Japanese architect Takao Shiotsuka. Designed to utilise both garden and sea aspects, the house is unusually deep, shaped in a wedge, with its widest point closest to the sea. They explained that they planned the first floor as a place to enjoy the garden. The entire house, cloaked in a white colour scheme, even utilises white in the outdoor areas with white gravel illuminating the garden floor. The second floor, utilises large glass windows at either end of its long cylindrical space. The indoor partition wall is also glass, so that from any point of the second floor, you can view the sea. They explain, 'the first floor enjoys the yard, the second floor enjoys the sea [and that] the two spaces [are] divided clearly'.