Name of the house "Kenken" means noisy, clamorous or up
uproarious in Japanese, as well as it stands for the first name of the
self-builder. Named expecting many
people can enjoy using the house.
gSanboh means a house in mountain area.
The Be-h@us is a wood structure system developed by architects, Mr. T. Akiyama and
Mr. S. Suganami. All necessary lumber, such as joints, columns, frames,
rafters are precisely pre-cut at a factory and delivered to sites. Lumber is connected
by specially developed metal fasteners.
Location is 1500meter or 5000feet above sea level in
Nagano, Japan.
With great help of many people, we are challenging to build a house by
ourselves.
Foundation and basement were constructed by a professional
in July 2001. Started assembling
structure on 10th August 2001.@All the employees of Island Profile Inc. participated to structuring especially
installing metal fasteners on pre-cut lumber.
The pre-cut lumber is designed and supplied by Be-h@us Factory.
Welcome to Kenken-sanbo(*) site.
We hope you will enjoy process of the self-build
project.
As an incentive, we propose to give a right to use the house as their second
house to all our friends who helped our construction. Our friends in foreign countries are not
exceptional as far as they can come to assist us.