![IO / Osamu Morishita - Windows, Courtyard](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5052/1cd2/28ba/0d16/b700/01e0/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414020386)
Text description provided by the architects. IO is a small house made of wood. I considered how to create the open planning for a young family who prefer intimateness between families and neighbors to privacy. In the traditional Japanese houses people have never felt solitude.
![IO / Osamu Morishita - Table, Chair, Stairs, Handrail, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5052/1c99/28ba/0d16/b700/01db/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414020387)
This house has just sliding doors and it also has “Doma” (earth floor) which old Japanese houses had for the entrances and multi-purposes including kitchen, where people communicate one another and work together. Anyone can approach easily from outside with their shoes, and family can handle co-operating work there. No wall but just sliding doors cannot keep families strict privacy but they can feel their own warmness.
![IO / Osamu Morishita - Countertop, Sink](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5052/1cbc/28ba/0d16/b700/01de/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414020392)