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House for Pottery Festival / Office for Environment Architecture

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Osaka, Japan

Hybrid Homes: Living and Working Collide in These 26 Projects

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Normally, houses are divided into common areas, rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. However, sometimes the client demands to add other programs related to their work or hobbies, making efficient design and daily spatial distribution more complex. As architects, we are faced with an interesting challenge: to merge the private life of its inhabitants with more public and open programs, generating exciting mixed-use spaces.

If you are interested in designing hybrid homes, we have selected 26 houses with additions including shops, soccer fields, barns, greenhouses, and even skateparks.

22 Skinny Houses With a Narrow Footprint and a Broad Impact

Skinny houses have a wider appeal than their footprint would suggest. With cities becoming denser, and land becoming rare and expensive, architects are increasingly challenged to design in urban infill spaces previously overlooked. Although designing within these unusual parameters can be difficult, they often require an individual, sensitive response, which can often lead to innovative, playful, even inspiring results. With that in mind, here are 22 houses with a narrow footprint, and a broad impact.

House in Toin / Kazuki Moroe Architects

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Toin, Japan

House Matsumoto Okada / MTKarchitects

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Matsumoto, Japan

House in Sayama / Coo Planning

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Osakasayama, Japan
  • Architects: Coo Planning
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  104
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014

Renhouse / MTKarchitects

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Ina, Japan
  • Architects: MTKarchitects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  163
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014

House in Asahiku / Coo Planning

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Osaka, Japan
  • Architects: Coo Planning
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  55
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014
  • Professionals: kk-Soken

Hikariniwa House / MTKarchitects

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Matsumoto, Japan

K House / Kimura Matsumoto

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Osaka, Japan
  • Architects: Kimura Matsumoto
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  45
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

Dogsalon / Naoko Horibe

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Usa, Japan
  • Architects: Naoko Horibe
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  66
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

Shino / Kimura Matsumoto

Shino / Kimura Matsumoto - Houses, Door, Facade, Beam
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Wakayama, Japan
  • Architects: Kimura Matsumoto
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  118
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

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Model Factory F / D.I.G Architects

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Nagoya, Japan
  • Architects: D.I.G Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  140
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

Owari Orthodontic Office / Akinari Tanaka

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  • Architects: Akinari Tanaka
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  483
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2007