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Architects: Kochi Architect’s Studio
- Area: 177 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Daici Ano , Kazuyasu Kochi
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Structural Engineering: MI+D architectural structure laboratory, Yukihiro Kato
Text description provided by the architects. This is a renovation project of single-family house, originally used as a typical two-story apartment-house with eight small rental units in the suburban area of Tokyo, Japan. More than half of the units of this old wooden apartment were empty, therefore the owner wanted to demolish it and then build a new single-family house (parents and two girls) at the beginning. However, I proposed to renovate this existing building into a single-family house instead of demolishing it, because with their budget I thought the clients could only gain the half area of the existing building if they built a new one, which does not benefit them.
