İÇ VE DIŞ MEKANDA KULLANILAN VOLKANİK TAŞLAR,
JAPONYA’YA ÖZGÜ BİR DİZİLİŞ ŞEKLİYLE, HER HANGİ BİR
KAPLAMA OLMADAN UYGULANMIŞ.
THE VOLCANIC STONES ON THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR WALLS
ARE LINED UP USING JAPANESE CRAFT TECHNIQUE, WITHOUT
ANY CLADDING MATERIAL.
Aray Architecture was founded by Asei Suzuki in 2009
with the Shirasu House being the practice’s first
completed residential project. Before setting up his
own architecture office, Suzuki was the design director
for Tokyo practice Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP where
he worked on projects including a similar ecological
residential home with a tree-filled courtyard behind a
glass-brick façade and a large art gallery emphasizing
space and light.
Located in Kagoshima Prefecture, the two-story Shirasu
House was intended to accommodate a family of six
with the client requesting an energy-efficient interior
environment that utilized eco-friendly passive natural
systems of heating and cooling. The solution was found
in the production of the Shirasu bricks with volcanic
Shirasu soil, stone and cement. Manufactured off
site, these bricks are a type of terrazzo incorporating
decorative and insulating qualities in a composite
building unit. The color and texture of these bricks
with their embedded stone pieces served to provide a
common surface throughout the exterior and interior
of the building. Aesthetic and ecological, these bricks
with the embedded pieces of gemstone in different
shades give the building’s spare geometry a rich and
uniform texture.
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