Uehara House Analysis

The Uehara House created 3 unique spaces on the three floors by the same structural system, which is the branched column. They support the house in a limited area and limited front façade 5-meter height. Therefore, the middle floor is a beamless slab to maximize the space between the first and the second floor.

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Three Unique Spaces

Three pairs of branched columns structural system essentially created three very unique spaces, which has made it distinctive to other houses with consistent spaces. 1st floor: Hollow and Spacious. The beamless floor slab split the branched columns, therefore the people couldonly see six rectangle columns and the cantilevered car park space. 2nd floor: Dense and Congregated The six columns in a space drastically transformed into eighteen columns, as it showed the branched part of the six columns. 3rd floor: Hollow A hemisphere space where the columns suddenly disappeared