A weekend house design for a married couple living their second life, located in Jinseki, Hiroshima, about an hour and a half north of Fukuyama, sitting atop a plateau with an elevation of about 400 to 700 meters, overlooking a beautiful landscape.

The main house, annex, and barn are built in a row from east to west, and the design this time mainly focused on renovating the main house and barn. Over 100 years have passed since the main house was built, and one key point of this project was how to make the most of its existing condition. During the inspection, we found that although there was a second floor, there are no stairs, and it is only accessible by climbing an old wooden ladder, and on the outside, there was an upper and lower roof which had been covered with red roof tiles until a few years ago. After judging it to be built in the Igura-zukuri style of the Kamo region in Hiroshima, we decided to start the renovation by returning it to a one-story house with an open floor plan, that from the outside looks like it has two-stories. The barn, which we designed as a guest room, was used for cattle in the past, and unlike the main house, it has no vertical and horizontal planes. The wooden frame was also constructed rather roughly, making planning the design extremely difficult.