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Weekend House in Karuizawa

Architects:
Makoto Take) & Chie Nabeshima/TNA.
Tokyo
Lighting design:
Masahide Kakudate/Bon Bori, Tokyo
Structural engineers:
Akira Suzuki/ASA, Tokyo
Others involved in the project: see page 696

Almost like something out of a fairy tale, this

finely detailed weekend house stands in the
midst of a wooded area an hour's car drive
from Tokyo. The adjacent roads and the
steeply sloping ground made it difficult to
sell the site, but when it was offered in conjunction with the weekend house designedby the young architectural practice TNA, interested parties turned up almost immediately. In their mini-tower, which commands a
panoramic view on all sides, the owners can
now enjoy the surrounding trees on three
levels- The house seems to exist without vertical elements; not even the individual storeys are legible. Everything is concealed
behind laminated cedar facade strips 28125 cm high. These timber strips are rigidly
fixed to 12/12 cm timber columns more than
10 m high. In order to avoid the use of diagonal members, rigid connections were necessary for the prefabricated Vierendeel facade structure. This was achieved with annular split-ring connectors, which unite horizontal members and vertical columns to
form a unified whole. On the ground floor,
which (s partly buried in the earth, the columns are bolted to the solid base structure.
An external layer of burned cedar boarding
creates a restrained appearance. Bands of
frameless glazing between the strips afford
sensuous glimpses through the structure
and do justice to the concept of transparency that underlies the entire building,

Sections
Floor plans
scale 1:200

1 Guest room
2 Vestibule
3 Kitchen/Dining area

4
5
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Living room
Bedroom
Bathroom

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1 115/210 mm laminated pine with steel annular split-ring connectors

2 10 mm cedar boarding, burned and impregnated
20 mm rigid-foam insulation
plastic waterproof layer
115/1250 mm laminated pine unit
3 piastic waterproof layer
15 mm plywood
70 mm (mm.) glass-wool thermal insulation to fails
vapour barner on 24 mm plywood
30 mm thermal insuiation
115/240-1250 mm laminated pine rafters
45/50 mm battens
12.5 mm plasterboard soffit
4 120/120 mm laminated pine coiumn
5 50 mm cypress frame with double glazing:
2x 6 mm toughened glass + 6 mm cavity
6 36 mm cypress frame with insect screen
7 smoke-extracl hood:
40 mm veneered piywood
8 fixed double glazing: 2x 6 mm toughened glass + 12 mm cavity
9 12 mm birch parquet
12 -t 28 mm plywood
105/300 mm iaminated pine joists
45/50 mm battens
12.5 mm plasterboard
10 10 mm cedar boarding, burned and impregnated on waterproof layer
150 mm reinforced concrete
105 mm polyurethane insulation
9 + 6 mm piywood

Vertical section
scale 1:10

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Vertical section Horizontal sections

scale 1:10
50 mm cypress window frame
with double glazing:
2x 8 mm toughened glass -i12 mm cavity
36 mm cypress frame with
insect screen
10 mm cedar boarding,
burned and impregnated
20 mm rigid-toam insulation
plastic waterproof layer
115/1250 mm laminated pine unit
3 mm sheet-steel canopy.
painted

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entrance door:
50 mm cypress frame
double glazing:
2x 8 mm toughened glass
+ 12 mm cavity
30 mm birch-veneered
chipboard landing/tread
fixed at sides with
25/25 mm steel angles
19/65 mm steel-flat
staircase string
12 mm birch parquet
12 -f 28 mm piywood
105/300 mm laminated pine joists
30/30 mm battens
12.5 mm plasterboard

8 0 32 mm tubular steel handrail

9 12 mm birch parquet
12 -f 28 mm plywood
thermal insuiation between
45/45 mm pine battens and
90/90 mm pine bearers
250 mm concrete floor slab
10 external wall:
10 mm cedar boarding,
burned and impregnated
waterproof layer
150 mm reinforced
concrete plinth
105 mm polyurethane
thermal insulation
9 + 6 mm plywood

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