Y-3 / Komada Architects’ Office

Architects: Komada Architects’ Office
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Architects: Takeshi Komada, Yuka Komada
Consultant: Yasushi Moribe
Area: 326.6 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Toshihiro Sobajima

It is the lease collective housing built in Uehara, Shibuya-ku near by downtown of Tokyo. It aims at offering the open and free places fit for the state of new city privacy.

By hollowing a lattice-like walls at intersections, we make various and rich spaces in the limited interior. And the perimeter paneled by an aluminum sash altogether is  to produce the relation of “to see and to be seen” with the town.