House with a Margin is a two-story residence located in Ibaraki, Japan, designed by Yukawa Design Lab.

Description
The architect’s own residence with a circulating margin that encourages a response to the environment on the site where the driveway and the field are adjacent.
A driveway is a city margin between “public and private” that can be used by the general public but is also mine. In addition, the field on the other side has a large margin in the sky even though it is in the city. Therefore, we aimed to create a house where the environment = light, wind, greenery, colors, and activities respond to the living space and abundantly by providing a margin that circulates between the private road, the field, and the inside of the house. The basic composition is to create a space where the ceiling height increases toward the field side. Then, in it, we incorporated a margin that goes from the outer DOMA that touches the town and the field to the inner DOMA, the atrium, the upper part of the Japanese-style room, and returns to the sky above the field or driveway. By providing windows in the margins and using materials that react to light and color, such as metal ceilings, shoji screens, and transparent polycarbonate, light, shadows, greenery, and colors those change from moment to moment can be taken into the living environment from private roads and fields. Furthermore, by planting trees in the house, we can feel closer to nature. With t...