House of the Day: Koshino House by Tadao Ando

Koshino House, Tadao Ando, The Modern House
Koshino House, Tadao Ando, The Modern House
Koshino House, Tadao Ando, The Modern House

Comprised of two parallel rectangular concrete forms, Koshino House was designed and built in Ashiya, Japan, in 1984.

The two volumes are partly submerged into the sloping site within a national park; carefully designed to become part of the existing landscape rather than to compete with it.

Photography: Kazunori Fujimoto

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