Overlapping discrete spaces. This is a house for a family of four located in Nagoya, Japan. The house is required to be a place where a young married couple and their two little children can live adapting to various changes of their stage of life expected to arrive in the future. A family relationship greatly changes as time goes on. When the children are infant, they are intimate with their parents. When they are adolescent, they gradually come to keep distances from their parents. When they leave home, a life of the elder couple begins.

In this changing relationship, we aimed to make a space in which each of the member who live there can stay independent in their family relationship, while keeping family unity. The site is located at a corner on a hill surrounded by small industrialized houses, so the project needed not to be out of scale with the surroundings. Then we came up with a composition of volumes that is made up of various places by combining and overlapping small unit spaces while keeping unity as a whole like a bagworm.