MyouKei-An” is a small one-story wooden house designed as a retirement retreat for a retiring 12th-generation female priest. The site was located along the approach to the temple, which has limited space. Originally, a prefabricated warehouse and a garage had been built there, so it was important to create a house and at the same time, to improve the landscape of the temple grounds.
Although there was an option to gently open up the house as a residence located along the approach to the temple, the client desired privacy first and foremost, and the exterior was designed to have a quiet appearance as a backdrop wall to the temple grounds. The wall was slightly extended to serve as a blind wall for the existing toilet. To synchronize with the tiled roof of the main temple building, the exterior charred timber cladding was coated with gray-colored impregnated paint to improve durability while providing a calm, textured wall finish.
More Information: ArchDaily
Archi Studio
Architects: kvalito
Area: 66 m²
Year: 2023
Photographs:Tatsuya Tabii
Lead Architect: Kazuya Mizukami
Structural Engineering: IN-STRUCT
Construction: Iwatsuru Construction, Yoshikazu Iwatsuru , Yuki Higashihara
Landscape Designer: Enen, Tomonori Nakayama
Structural Engineer: Takuma Togo
Design Period: 2022/2～2022/10
Construction Period: 2022/11～2023/4
Woodwork: Kyoei Lumber
City: Ibaraki
Country: Japan
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