ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 9 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/54622/renovated-house-in-higachi-matsubara-kenichi-otani-architects Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Nico Saieh https://www.archdaily.com/54622/renovated-house-in-higachi-matsubara-kenichi-otani-architects This is a renovation and expansion project of an eighteen-year-old house for two families. Only the part for the young family was renovated with an addition. The house is located in a reasonably good residential area of suburban Tokyo. The site has a good garden with abundant trees on the south side. A tall orange tree provides a nice shade over the west side road.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/54596/house-in-matsubara-kenichi-otani-architects Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Nico Saieh https://www.archdaily.com/54596/house-in-matsubara-kenichi-otani-architects The design project, a small residence for a young couple, is located in a dense residential area in the suburbs of Tokyo where exterior wall of houses and fence are constructed along their lot boundary rejecting humane communication between the houses and the street. It should be noted that an empty land before a house and exterior walls are built could share common and flowing space with surrounding environment. This is an experimental project to design a house taking in the atmosphere of surrounding environment, especially front streets, to the building site and creating a new environment by adding a house on the site. At the same time, the house interior was designed under the constraints of a small building lot in the suburban environment and a small volume defined by the exterior façade.

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