...It’s not that we are irresponsibly promoting one-room type residences. One-room type residences in which the inhabitant decides the style of living are, at the end of the day, only crystallizations of the memories of the inhabitant. If possible, I would like to create these so that the inhabitant can value such thoughts and memories to the maximum possible extent...Various rooms are used various ways. The way in which they are used is, in my opinion, up to the user. However, the basic character should be decisively constituted by the mutual relations between spaces. For example, if in this house the zone for individual rooms and the zone for the family room were to be reversed, the character of the house would change completely. In other words, the distribution of spaces determines the character of the building. The distribution of space is, put simply, essentially the relation between the building and the exterior... (Riken Yamamoto, “Shinkenchiku Jutaku-Tokushu”, Jan. 1996)
		House in Kamakura (1993-1995) location: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture principal use: private residence site area: 365.84m2 building area: 125.35m2 total floor area: 153.43m2 structure: wood; 2 stories maximum height: 5,880mm architects: Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop structural engineers: SIGLO Associates mechanical engineers: DAN Engineering general contractors: Sancho completion date: May, 1995 next back top