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Little House with a Big Terrace / Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Little House with a Big Terrace is a lucid example of having large external space in small urban residence with limited site area of Tokyo. Through the process of designing this house, we tried to prove that having rich private external space was important for making crucial difference in the quality of life inside the house, as well as obtaining various possibilities of external activity.

House with 30,000 Books / Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Valentina Villa — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:00:00 +0000

House with 30,000 Books is a residence for two families, which has a large library between those two dwelling parts. As the name suggests, the number of books the library can store is about 30,000, which almost equals to the number of books that one small public library can store. The library space, sometimes works for bonding two families, sometimes works as a buffer space, is the common property for them and the most spacious place of this house.

White Cave House / Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

White Cave House is a massive lump engraved by a series of voids interconnected in the shape of a kinked tube. The connection of voids - we call it Cave - is the theme of this house. Internal rooms are designed to enjoy the minimum views of Cave characterized by its whiteness. At the same time, this concept is also the practical solution to realize a courtyard house in Kanazawa city known for heavy snow in Japan.

F-White / Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

What the architect invented, was to put the rectangular courtyard at an unusual oblique anglerather than a right angle. Locating courtyard in this way makes spaces around the courtyard can have enough room to stay, and be chained each other directly at their corners, without aisle.

H-Orange / Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

H-ORANGE is an independent house featured by the character of its site, which is located next to a small field and large woods, although it is placed in the center of Tokyo.

I-Mango / Takuro Yamamoto Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I- MANGO is an independent house for a single family, located in suburb of Osaka city. The site of this house adjoins the house of the client’s parents, so establishing firm relationship between two houses is the key of this project.