KINO ARCHITECTS

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Lake Biwa Villa 2

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A company-owned recreational house in front of Lake Biwa. Lake Biwa is the largest lake in Japan. People enjoy fishing in the lake and they would like house contains boathouse.
First of all, we place mass of concrete faced to magnificent natural landscape. Concrete has native texture and scale that fit into large lake. There are boathouse in this mass of concrete. Living space which are placed apart from landscape, looks out over the lake. Colour of interior is unifeid in black to look the best view of the lake.
People access to the lake directly on ground level, connect to the lake visually from upstairs. We offer the extraordinary place with Lake Biwa.

location
Shiga, Japan
principal use
villa
structure
wood+RC
site area
2,478.51㎡
building area
125.52㎡
total floor area
241.77㎡
completion
July, 2018
photo
Kai Nakamura