Hilltop House

The house has been built on top of a hill that was generated during land development at the foot of mountain. The housing site occupies about 830 m2, and is situated in a location with nice panoramic views of nearby mountains. The approach that looks like a forest path branches off from a road at the foot of the hill, and leads to the house entrance.

The client requested to create extraordinariness in everyday living while making the best use of the location. We then planned a courtyard house that faces open towards the mountains as a borrowed scenery. The building is composed of a horizontally-emphasized voluminous shape and a wall surrounding the courtyard. The height of the wall has been determined so as to view great mountain ridges from the rooms. It has been designed to be integrated in the building, which has created beautiful skyline, making itself as part of the new scenery and raising further the scenic value that resides in the location.

The graveled courtyard that has no planting has been designed to be as a blank space. With the background landscape as the borrowed scenery, it makes you feel extended tranquil space. To produce extraordinariness, a space under the eaves has been designed to provide a water basin facing the courtyard and a room. Visually connecting inside with outside, it appears differently every second and thus is used as a gallery. The landscape reflected in the water and/or light and shade, together with the objects placed there, creates delicate scenes. The independent partition wall that catches eyes from inside the room disperses light from the skylight, making the space more impressive. The bench, wall and ceiling are continued beyond the glass partition that separates inside from outside. They create depth in the scene and produce flows between inside and outside.

The building takes in landscapes and external environment. Each individual room utilizes clear sightlines and natural light, creating a continuous space while loosely segmented. The house that appears tranquil but fluid will continue to produce fresh and extraordinary space experiences in daily life.

山丘

之宅

山丘之宅（日文：丘の上の家）座落於山腳下建案所形成的山丘之頂，佔地約830平方公尺（250坪），可飽覽周圍的絕美山景。一條從山下道路岔出的小徑宛如森林步道，通往住宅入口。

業主盼能善用基地位置的優勢，為日常生活營造出非日常的獨特之感。藉此，木村浩一建築研究所設計出庭院式住宅，朝山區開放以借景。建築物是由水平延伸的量體及庭院圍牆所構成，牆的高度經悉心設計，因此在室內空間即可眺望山稜美景。牆的設計與建築物融為一體，形成雅緻的天際線，讓本座建築物融入周圍景致，進一步提高此地點的景觀價值。鋪著碎石的庭園未種植綠意，而是保留餘白空間，並採用借景手法，運用後方景觀使空間延伸，散發寧靜之感。

建築師為了營造「非日常」的特色，因而將屋簷下的閒置空間設計成水池，映照著庭園與室內空間；使水池在視覺上能連接內外，分分秒秒變化多端的流動景象，亦猶如藝廊展覽般引人入勝。照映出風景及光影的水面，搭配周圍物件即形成細膩之景。室內的獨立隔間牆能分散天窗進入的自然光，為空間增添光影移迭的精彩特質，相當耐人尋味。分隔室內外的玻璃隔間後方有長椅、牆與天花板之延伸，於是景色有了深度，室內外也因此有了流暢的銜接。

綜觀整體，建築物以向景觀與外部環境借景，搭配流動於各個空間所運用的明晰視線與自然光，產生空間連續性的同時，亦無形地予以分界，使住宅性格兼具寧靜與流動之感，遂持續在日常生活中，增添新奇與超越日常的空間體驗。