![Sumikiri House / y+M design office - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5012/cd5f/28ba/0d14/7d00/0b8d/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414023913)
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Architects: y+M design office
Text description provided by the architects. The Sumikiri House is located within a residential neighborhood where there are existing older tenement houses in Amagasaki-City, Hyogo-Pref, Japan. The existing fabric of the neighborhood consists of narrow roadways, about 4 meters, and dense housing with limited poor views. The house is located on a corner lot, and with the idea to maximize the lot the architects created a design that incorporated a lot of natural light and joyfulness for the family.
![Sumikiri House / y+M design office - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5012/cd59/28ba/0d14/7d00/0b8c/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414023920)
In the Sumikiri House the plan at ground level has its corner removed, appropriate to its name which means corner cutoff in Japanese, creating a garage space and a more open feel to the narrow lot.
![Sumikiri House / y+M design office - Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5012/cd68/28ba/0d14/7d00/0b8f/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414023917)
A plain-woven iron grating on the façade of the house suspends out of the the missing corner and creates an interesting mix of transparency and privacy. Although the grating works as a partition, it provide a brightness and a perspective with inside the room where is not large.
![Sumikiri House / y+M design office - Beam, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5012/cd6f/28ba/0d14/7d00/0b90/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414023919)
Sumikiri House achieves a moderate distance and relation between the client and their neighbors. The design of the corner cutoff and plain-woven grating achieves both transparency of perspective visibility and secured privacy in addition efficiently utilizing the narrow lot.
![Sumikiri House / y+M design office - Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5012/cd94/28ba/0d14/7d00/0b96/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414023931)