House in Saijo, Hiroshima, Japan, by Suppose Design Office based on traditional pit-dwelling houses.
Text description provided by the architects.
A client is a couple with three children hoped there are bright openhearted space, and keeping the privacy. This site is a field before, and bearing stratum is in the minus one meter from the ground side.Therefore, we thought support according to the composition of not the ground improvement, but a half underground from the beginning of the plan. The leftover soil by excavating the ground was used to making the hill, that thing is enabled the function of the garden on the exterior and guard their privacy from, house’s neighborhood. The upper floors than a half underground are composed by only the pyramid-shaped roof, the lighting was token in the skylight.
The bright openhearted space of a undergound and first floor of feeling the calm, and the second floor with which light is filled while closing
Each floor was connected by the hole made for the center of the floor, and they were able to materialize to become the various property
