Unique Villa Saitan Exterior Ideas by EASTERN Design Office

unique concrete housing complex of villa Saitan designed with a beautiful tree shaped facade exterior located in Nishioji-hachijo, Kyoto Japan. Villa saitan is built to be seen as one big house and its construction is a collective housing consisting of 11 units.

This unique architectural housing complex of Villa SAITAN does have a mean, Sai means variety of beautiful colors that make something more attractive. Tan is the color of the shrine gates, vermilion. It is also the color of pale red granite stone. Vermilion will not be weathered. It is said that vermillion is a sacred color and it used to be applied on serving dishes and bow and arrow to make them holy ones.

The architecture is covered with a wall in which holes are cut. The shape of the holes resembles a trunk, leaves, a root and bulbs. It also can be seen as clouds floating over the trees. Concrete shape which is based on nature turns into a hollow cave, light, and sunbeams filtered through trees.

The villa saitan entrance is from the root carved into the center of the front wall. An inner pathway is a narrow corridor which runs from street to street and from lot to lot. In this project the inner path is connected to the garden of the town house of the client. He manages this collective housing by himself. It is his daily routine to do sweeping, arranging flowers at the entrance, and watering the path. Thus he enjoys his post-retirement years.

Unique Villa Saitan Exterior Ideas by eastern design office

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