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House in Toyooka
2002, JUNE - 2003, DECEMBER
Architect: Kiyonobu Nakagame & Midori Omori
Structural Engineer: S.FORM structural design office
Contractor: Kikushima Co.Ltd
Structure: Reinforced Concrete Partialy Steel Structure, 3 stories
Photographs: Katsuhisa KIDA
Description
The house is located in the urbanized area in a suburb near downtown
Yokohama city, the Japan’s second largest city. After walking though
the small shopping district in front of the station nearby, one will
find the neighborhood in which the house is built. Since houses, offices,
shops and temporary buildings coexist in the neighborhood making it
difficult to identify “the face” of this area、we thought that it would
be appropriate for the house to look somewhat independent from its
surroundings.
The house is consisted of three simple boxes piled up on each other.
Each box is shifted horizontally in different directions to keep the
appropriate distance from its surroundings and to comply with building
code height restriction, as a result creating various spaces such
as terraces and eaves. The glazed corridor space which encloses the
living areas brings a gentle continuity within the building as if
it worked as an intermediate space connecting the shifted boxes.
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