Akio Isshiki | 22 floors, Japanese designer's home+studio+curry restaurant

A seafront log house transformed into a designer's residence, studio and curry restaurant, “fusion” was key to my realisation while designing. In the course of the design, a kind of fusion comes into view around the house, such as various uses, cultures and nationalities, time and space, towns and houses, work and life. Among them, I recognize that by rediscovering one's roots and cultural background, and combining exotic essences with indigenous traditional materials and techniques, it is possible to transform the humble “multi-national residence”.

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For example, the ground floor was tiled when tiled because the area was once a major producer of tiles. These tiles are handcrafted by Awaji artisans who overlap the patterns of the volcanic soils of Central and South America over their texture and edge shape. WE PUT NETS ON THE BARRICADES THAT RESEMBLE MOSQUITO NETS AND BAMBOO CURTAINS, REMINISCENT OF THE TROPICS AND EVOKE NOSTALGIA. The beautiful layout created by such incomplete partitions is typical of traditional Japanese architecture. Inside the house, space is also proportional in the vertical direction, and the drooping branches of tropical plants divide the space moderately. An ashtray worker from Awaji scraped two layers of wall relative to the sea and applied a coating with a mixture of red iron oxide. This is an attempt to incorporate colorful walls with elements from different countries into the building against the backdrop of Japan.

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I think the fusion of timelines is able to create depth in space. I am neither emphasizing the contrast between the new and the old, nor matching the project as a whole with the old elements, but rather treating old materials and designs as one of the creations with a specific timeline, and looking at creating a part that includes new additions that allows us to feel a long and complete span of time. A space where new and old coexist. NEW AND OLD COLUMNS AND BEAMS MISALIGN, AND THE LAYERED BARRICADES LIBERATE THE VIEW THROUGH THE SCULPTED GLASS. The door handle was bought by me on a trip, and the years of its production remain a mystery. The cycco pillar stands on a natural stone base, giving one a sense of timelessness. Materials from different timelines converge and coexist.

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Carefully selected new materials add texture over time and always make a beautiful presence felt in the glow of light. Here, the species around the houses are fused, while maintaining their vitality and essence. The house has a generous ocean-like atmosphere that takes people's hearts beyond the horizon. On the second floor of the house, there is a window that only leads to the sky and the sea.

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