ALTS DESIGN OFFICE creates two open spaces of a different type on this project. The client of Maibara’s House also hopes for an open space with good privacy and a common area but there is also one that hopes the two buildings come in a different type. The result is attractive spaces with different nature.
It is a 2015 residential project of a detached house by Florian Busch Architects. S House in Chiba sits at the end of a town behind Tokyo’s suburbs with 188 m² in size. It has a simple volume and also a stairwell behind the entrance door of the house that becomes the house’s main pivot. This project is started in 2011 with the use of timber for its structure.
Completed by Florian Busch Architects in 2012, House that Opens Up to Its Inside is a case study for affordable small-size houses in the densely built low-rise suburbs of Tokyo. Any plot affordable for the average family is far from big with land prices high. A detached house remains the perennial dream even in the density of these developments.
Completed in 2008 by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, Sea and Garden is a weekend house that has two floors with different functions. Located in Japan, the first floor of this house offers an awesome view of the garden while the second floor offers an amazing view of the sea. These floors are separated clearly so one can have an extraordinary time as a villa in this house by going back and forth between them.
Completed in 2000 by Jun Aoki & Associates, C House is an L-shaped house on a site with 8.1 meters in width and 9.5 meters in depth. Located in Japan, this house has a rectangular garden with an interior composed of a collection of small rooms.
Designed as a weekend house by Shinichi Ogawa and Associates, Lakeside House is located on the shore at the foot of Mt. Fuji of Yamanashi. It is a one-story villa that has an awesome interior with a white base. This interior is also filled with the light and the color outside that changes every day. This residential project is completed in 2015.
Designed by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, Kitsuki House stands in a residential area by the sea. The client and his wife choose the site of this property in search of the sun and sea in Kyushu, Japan. He loves the pristine site and wants to have a house without destroying the site terrain. The shutter is treated as a moving wall by the south facade and it consists of repeating “walls” or “non-wall surfaces”.
Completed in 2007 by Jun Aoki & Associates, J House is a residential project composed of rooms tied in a row. Located in Japan, this house also has openings that frame the beautiful scenery beyond. Each room in this house is like a cell and all openings are limited to a squared shape.
It is a village house located on a slope in a deep mountain valley in Kyushu, Japan. Designed by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, KINDA is an 89 m2 project of a two-storey wooden house for a family. This house has two layers of volume and a soft boundary surface created by the facade.
Designed as a weekend house, House in Henaji is built in the northern area of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates avoids unnecessary forms operating in architectural design in this house. The plan of this house follows the traditional Okinawa-style house’s plan. Started in 2004, this project is finished in 2005.
Renovated by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio, House in Sennyuji-michi is a renovation project of a gallery and a house from a townhouse. This townhouse faces Sennyujimichi in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan. For this renovation, the architect uses ceramics for various details and decorative looks.
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