Japanese architect Yoshiji Takehara, has completed lots of architecture projects, especially in the field of housing, mainly in Kansai area. There are also lots of great dwelling practices like Kindergarten and elderly housing. Thus, he is considered as the master architect in housing design. Since 1980th, he has got significant attention because that his works are published on variety of Japanese architecture magazines more than 100 times.
This productive architect, keeps capturing attention for decades. After analyzing his works, the author capture its features. The most important one is the arrangement of approach. For example, in his works, by bending the approach flow, it makes approach tortuous and ambiguous. This kind of study is important when analysis design method of detached house. So far, the studies about the relationship between inner and outer space of Japanese detached house are almost all focus on the position relationships or connecting method between both space. Nearly no study about the house approach's method have been found. Therefore, this study focuses on analyzing the approach space design method in Yoshiji Takehara's detached house works.
The cases of this study are 78 detached house works designed by Yoshiji Takehara, which are published on main architecture magazines with adequate study material.
Based on the study for Yoshiji Takehara's words and the result of interview with him, this paper summarizes the keywords for Yoshiji Rakehara's approach design method and concludes the items to be analyzed. Those items are: the design intention of approach which is obtained from his comment of his works, the classification for approach layout, the regression analysis for the approach data, the space composition of approach and its variation, the comprehensive analysis of the items above, and the comparison with normal works in the same decades about the approach design method. The results are as follows:
1). The time axis of approach has been extended by extending the overall length of streamline and adding turn, thus creates a transitional space before entering the house and makes the limited space widely felt.
2). A variety of spatial experience of approach have been made by arranging space with different limitation. Thus increased the contrast of approach space and brings sensual transitions and diverse spatial experiences.
Yoshiji Takehara ingeniously integrates the traditional Japanese tea house layout into the contemporary housing design by applying the method of approach. He gives an answer to the relationship between human and nature in contemporary housing design. Especially for the reality that residential land becomes smaller and smaller, the approach method for where it is impossible to be complicated proves to be an effective way to make a tiny space not visibly tiny and the experience before entering the house is enriched. Lots of work using this method has already been built, meaning this method strikes a popular chord.
