Lik House by Satoru Hirota Architects

Lik House by Satoru Hirota Architects

The Lik House is a single family house in three tunnel-like volumes designed by Japanese architect Satoru Hirota, a residence with the feeling of a resort and offers a sense of intimacy due to the medium-rise collective housing scattered around the single-family house.

Three tunnel-like volumes were arranged along the site’s boundary with angled trajectories, generating an irregular outdoor residual space which was transformed into the courtyard and the bamboo yard.  Its tube-like concrete structure (150-mm thick) with glazing facing the courtyard are infused with a soft light, creating a distinction between the interior and the exterior. Floor-to-ceiling ribbon windows border each of the internal spaces, providing spectacular views of the bamboo garden and vegetation from the rooms. The Lik House features cement volumes, and stark white stucco surfaces  with geometric angular shapes adding up to the cement surfaces.

This dynamic architecture, with  slender passages and  continuous space (50-meters end-to-end), has been built on a 294.90 square meter plot, with a total surface area of 108.21 square meters.
The house comprises of an entrance area, storage area, dining area, wine cellar, a living room and a WC, while the master bedroom is a long tunnel-like passage which includes the bedroom, the bathroom, and a closet next to the service court and the garage.

Its ribbon windows, wide openings, skylights, application of glass panels and few furnitures in the interior sets the tone for an elegant Japanese modern residence.

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Project Name:  Lik House
Client:  Private
Location:  Tokyo, Japan
Program:  Single family house
Architect:  Satoru Hirota Architects / Satoru Hirota
Structural design:  Nieda+Hisaeda Architects / Taizen Nieda+Taizo Komatsu
Contractor:  Eiger Co. Ltd, / Noriaki Fujii+Masakazu Sasaki+Koji Misaki
Site area:  294.90 square meters
Built-up area: 108.21 square meters
Year of completion: 2010

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