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InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners
InBetween House,  | International Design Awards Winners

InBetween House

Lead Designers
Prize(s)Honorable Mention
Entry Description

This artificially leveled site in a scenic area surrounded by Japanese larch trees, unused for thirty years, was clients’ ideal location for their home as a daily retreat from their work in congested Tokyo. To create a cultural & sustainable house that seamlessly blend into the surrounding, we decided to use a primitive form of a cottage in a new way.
InBetween House is conceived as a collection of single-pitch roof cottages that is clad in the local larch wood siding and built in the traditional Japanese wood construction method. Each cottage is a room, spaced apart from one another and set at 30 degree increments to best fit the site’s topography and to face a unique view. The gap left between them, captured as a living room or a circulation space by the connecting roofs, is a fluid open public space that feels like being outside looking at mountains in the distance. Since these connecting roofs bend & fold to connect the cottages at multiple angles & heights, the in-between space result in spatial & structural warpage.
We integrated the traditional wood construction with local materials into our design for cultural sustainability and articulated a set of design rules of cottage placements and connections, which allowed the house to be freely arranged to satisfy any requirements and adoptable to any future changes or additions prolonging its building life for building sustainability.

Bio

1995 GRADUATE IN UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
1995-2001 WORK IN TADAO ANDO ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES
2004 GRADUATE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, THE BARTLETT M ARCH
2004 ESTABLISH KOJI TSUTSUI ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES

2004 MENTIONED AT FORD CALUMET ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER COMPETITION
2006 JIA AWARD SELECTION
2007 BARBARA CAPPOCHIN FOUNDATION, PRIZE
2007 JIA AWARD SELECTION
2008 CERAMIC TILES OF ITALY DESIGN COMPETITION, WINNER
2008 LEAF AWARDS
2008 GOOD DESIGN AWARDS
2008 WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
2008 THE 34TH ANNUAL KEN ROBERTS MEMORIAL DELINEATION COMPETITION
2008 HOLCIM AWARDS