Jutaku
Jutaku or kyosho jutaku (Japanese: 狭小住宅] is a Japanese architectural style focused on delivering original, "micro-home" designs on very small sites.[1]
History
[edit]The Jutaku phenomenon rose in the 1990s as Japan's real estate sites grew increasingly smaller, both from the Japanese inheritance system and the island's growing population.[2][1] According to the architect Kengo Kuma, the first traces of Jutaku appear in the writings of the poet Kamo no Chōmei and the description of his own small house.[3]
The development of smaller, capsule homes was influenced also by Japan's capsule hotel trend, launched in 1974 with the Nakagin Capsule Tower.[4]
Description
[edit]Jutaku simply means "house" in Japanese.[5] Jutaku houses and buildings focus on minimalist, multi-functional spaces to make up for their small sites. Jutaku houses often do not blend with their urban context, making the architectural style a good fit for individualist-oriented cultures.[2] Jutaku houses and buildings often feature contorted geometries and daring structural engineering, or awkward site configurations.[5][4]
According to the Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita, a Jutaku house is awkward, built towards the sky, nature-sensitive, personalized, monochrome, built with reflective materials and hidden storage areas.[6]
Examples
[edit]- 4x4 house in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, designed by Ando Tadao[7][4]
- Layer House, designed by Hiroaki Ohtani[4]
- Lucky Drops, in Tokyo, designed by Yasuhiro Yamashita[6]
Further reading
[edit]- Naomi Pollock (2015), Jutaku: Japanese Houses. Phaidon Press. ISBN 9780714869629
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Claire Voon, Why Japan's Futuristic Micro-Homes Are So Popular, Hyperallergic.com, 4 January 2016
- ^ a b Edwin Heathcote, How Japan's 'jutaku' houses squeeze creativity into small spaces, Ft.com, 5 February 2016
- ^ Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, 10 Japanese Kyosho Jutaku (Micro Homes) That Redefine Living Small, Gizmodo.com, 15 May 2013
- ^ a b c d Kyosho jutaku: Living large in small spaces, Tokyoreporter.com, 29 March 2008
- ^ a b Naomi Pollock, Jutaku: a slideshow, Japonica.info, 8 December 2015
- ^ a b Tight squeeze: The secrets behind Japan's coolest micro homes, Cnn.com, 5 February 2017
- ^ Miki Tanikawa, Odd Building Sites Force Architects Into Flights of Fancy, Nytimes.com, 14 October 2010
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