| Takatsuka Architects Firm Co.,Ltd | Japan |
- a Japanese style house in mid Tokyo -
(the harmonization of traditional and contemporary
style)
Shibuya-ku,Tokyo
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| 1F serving both as living and dining room |
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a 3-story steel frame building |
| outward appearance |
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| 1F serving both as living and dining room |
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| entrance |
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3F serving both as living and dining room |
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| This classical style of work, which looks
as if it were just transferred from Kiso area, is a long and narrow house with a
road frontage 3.6M wide, made for two
households.
"A bedroom of eels", so we
Japanese
usually call one like this just for
kidding.
At the time of planning, it was in the middle of the period of the irrational economic exuberance, "the Bubble economy", there appeared lots and lots of palatial residences one after another just competing their luxuriousness. I actually felt repelled by such trend and wishing to create something that stand for much more of spiritual wealth. During our planning, the client of this house, who is well versed in many fields, unobtrusively started to talk about a small water-bawl of Ryuan-ji Temple in Kyoto. He told me about the inscription on it that goes, "I solely have come to know what I was looking for", which definitely made me feel encouraged and since then, I have been expounding this thought and believed this could be anyone's idea for a comfortable way of living. Today, people still pay too much attention to servile looking, however, this house that is consciously far from fawning is quietly maintaining his thought in the middle of busy, changing, big city. |
Construction:Miyagawa Engineering/Photogrash:Shogo
Sato
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