Japanese Farmhouse
3300 SF, 4 beds, 3 baths
The garden facing façade of the modern Japanese home contains a wide timber framed veranda.
Designed as a generational heritage home for a Japanese American family, this project was a good platform for enhancing our understanding of traditional Japanese carpentry - perhaps the most perfect modular building system ever conceived - while tailoring it for modern needs.
Designed as a complex of three buildings surrounding a walled garden, the spaces focus inward even while taking advantage of a large, multi-acre site. The walls that frame the garden also continue indoors to create a powerful division between service and served spaces.
The project will feature wood that is sourced on-site from a 5-acre forest and custom milled for the project, and beautiful timber joinery in a hybrid combination of heavy timber and traditional shear walls. It will also feature high performance windows & doors, super-insulated walls, natural ventilation, and radiant floors.
In this design model of the interior, wood beams support skylights that allow light to filter beautifully through the wood interior.
