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Architects: Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates
- Area: 525 m²
- Year: 2006
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Photographs:Ken'ichi Suzuki
Text description provided by the architects. This site appears when walking while gentle slope the alley of the width of about 2.5m by about 30m. Surroundings are built of the house, and see Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway in front of the east side.
The connected alley is drawn in to the site as it is in the townhouse in 12 households in all, and the building is arranged on the both sides dividing the volume into two.
This building slightly extends the end of a past alley, and makes the depths that comes off to the sky.
As for the wall that places the alley and is opposite, a slit window is set up along the ceiling side. It becomes the interface of each unit and the outside, and controls the relation of the room mutually opposite.
Implications of the town and the unit of house become shape in a secluded most place in the town district, and it appears.
