Since the house is situated in the middle of a dense residential area, we decided to introduce a courtyard with urban nature in the house of the solid square volume. The courtyard’s droplet like shape serves to create the expanding and continuous interior space and to cut off the characteristic private sky from the surrounding townscape.
The common spaces like living room is on the first floor, while the private spaces like bedrooms and the parking are on the ground floor. The courtyard situated on the level between two floors helps to connect two different levels smoothly.
Contrary to the open courtyard, the exterior wall is rather closed except the vertical slit windows for the ventilation. The entrance gate as the biggest slit from the street invite the visitor into the organic courtyard, which works as the extension of the public realm in the private house. We hope the family will enjoy their public life around the droplet courtyard.