The best things about a small house are that it can be rooted in land, possesses the nature of the universe, and brings a family together in a poetic scene.

This small, two-story wooden house makes all these things possible. The linked spaces enclose its horizontality, verticality and centrality, bringing harmony to family life with memory and imagination.

“Horizontality” : the extent of the ground-floor elevated concrete slab

“Verticality” : the enclosed loft space on the second floor that creates a world cut off from the outside world

“Centrality” : the atrium in which the first-floor space extends up to the second floor, and the flame of the wood-burning stove

The space and people’s lives are given detailed meanings by the house’s concrete slabs, white outer walls, the shape of the building in the image of a mushroom, the small garden to the north, its latticed corridor, small windows in the atrium, wood trusses, louver windows, and pitched walls, etc.