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Architects: Rieko Okumura/Atelier O, Ryuichi Sasaki / Sasaki Architecture
: Ryuichi Sasaki / Sasaki Architecture - Area: 331 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs: Takumi Ota, Bauhaus Neo
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Light Design: Lighting Sou, Natsuha Kameoka
Text description provided by the architects. The building sits in a neighbourhood shopping lane in Nakanobu, just south to the central district of Tokyo. The town is a mixture of old and new. A grandma’s confectionary and a jazz festival, pensioners among young couples, all share the same streets happily together. The site locates itself in the vicinity of a newsstand, a bathhouse and alike. In order to fit in to this yet humble liveliness of the town, the building’s scale is restrained to those of the neighbouring buildings, 4 stories with only 12 units.
