An old train carriage kinds one particular half of this family members property in Takasago, Japan, whilst the other half appears like it could be a railway station .
Founder of Kobe-primarily based studio Container Design Takanobu Kishimoto produced the single-storey home – named Platform – for a suburban web site in Takasago, a coastal city in Hyogo Prefecture.
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Kishimoto planned to remove the old train carriage from the boundary of the plot to develop a bigger creating area, but on studying that the passenger car had been on the web site since the client’s childhood and was a well-known regional landmark, he decided to incorporate it into the design and style.
The architect added a prolonged volume with a shed roof adjacent to the carriage, giving it the visual appeal of a train at a station platform. “It appears like it really is going to commence moving at any second,” he mentioned.
The timber-framed building contains a living space and bedroom, and is clad in sheets of metal to provide an industrial physical appearance, whilst the train houses a children’s perform area and music room.
A slender gap in between the carriage and the wall of the property is used as a storage region for logs, which fuel a wood-burning stove in the main living space.
The roof plane extends more than the edge of the building to partially protect this location from rain, even though a lip overhanging the front of the house creates a porch.
Inside, the pale wooden framework is left unfinished and the walls are lined with sheets of matching timber. Metallic pipes are exposed across the ceiling and a strip of concrete marks out a corridor, giving the space a raw visual appeal.
An open-prepare residing area occupies the front of the block, although the bedroom and a mixed bathroom and utility area sit at the back of the website.
A decked patio minimize into one particular side of the constructing offers separation among the social and the more personal regions of the home, but its glazed doors let organic light into the two components of the building.
A brief corridor bridges the gap among the property and the train, linking the living area and kitchen with the music area and children’s play area in the car, which has also been lined with pale wood. Corresponding windows create a visual connection between the two locations.
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