Pentagonal house is located in Tsushima city, Aichi pref in Japan and is designed by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio.
The site is within a calm village near Nagoya, Japan. It is a housing for a young couple, and just next to this architecture, there is an old Japanese style house where their parents lives.
To respect for and harmonize with neighboring environment, we delivered traditional hipped roof as many neighboring houses has. This characteristic pentagonal geometry of plan was delivered to have the maximum space in this site and adequate open space around it. Then we start to think about how to live under the second landscape, pentagonal hipped roof.
Five main structural walls were set in radically, and it makes possible to take in the outside spaces as extension of interior spaces. In the center of the architecture, radial walls were cut off in dome shape, to make space for a dining table. Here, under the peak of the landscape, there is tall ceiling height and whole families can enjoy their dishes all together and wide range views to gardens. In five surrounding spaces with low ceiling height, under the skirts of the landscape, people can stay calm and relax with appropriate distance from others, just like a life in our traditional house.
