Koshino House
1981
Modernism
single family house
Koshino House climbs a wooded slope in the Okuike district of Ashiya, between Osaka and Kobe, as a pair of long reinforced-concrete bars partly cut into the hillside. The original 1981 scheme places living, kitchen and dining rooms on the…
Timeline
- 1981
Tadao Ando
- 1984
A curved concrete studio addition for the fashion designer Hiroko Koshino was added between the original rectilinear bars as a deliberate counter-gesture.
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