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Architects: Alphaville Architects
- Area: 50 m²
- Year: 2012
Slice of the City / Alphaville Architects
Pillar Grove / Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio
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Architects: Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio
ONOMICHI U2 / Suppose Design Office
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Architects: Suppose Design Office
- Area: 2301 m²
- Year: 2014
Half & Half House / naf architect & design
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Architects: Naf Architect & Design
- Area: 47 m²
- Year: 2014
Arch Wall House / Naf Architect & Design
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Architects: Naf Architect & Design
- Area: 243 m²
- Year: 2014
The Frontier House / Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio
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Architects: Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio
- Area: 101 m²
- Year: 2013
Koyasan Guest House / Alphaville Architects
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Architects: Alphaville Architects
- Year: 2012
House in Ohno / Airhouse Design Office
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Architects: Airhouse Design Office
- Area: 128 m²
House for Viewing the Mountain / Kawashima Mayumi Architects Design
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Architects: Kawashima Mayumi Architects Design
- Area: 109 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio
Atlas house / Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
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Architects: Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
- Area: 278 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Non, Nishimura construction company
Complex House / Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
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Architects: Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
- Area: 106 m²
- Year: 2011
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Professionals: Hatano construction company, Non
Belly House / Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
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Architects: Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates
- Area: 43 m²
- Year: 2010
House in Tousuien / Suppose Design Office
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Architects: Suppose Design Office
- Year: 2012
The House of Yagi / Suppose Design Office + Ohno Japan
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Architects: Ohno Japan, Suppose Design Office
- Area: 112 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: Shinkou Kensetsu co.LTD
Why Japan is Crazy About Housing
Japan is famous for its radical residential architecture. But as Tokyo architect Alastair Townsend explains, its penchant for avant garde housing may be driven by the country’s bizarre real estate economics, as much as its designers’ creativity.
Here on ArchDaily, we see a steady stream of radical Japanese houses. These homes, mostly designed by young architects, often elicit readers’ bewilderment. It can seem that in Japan, anything is permissible: stairs and balconies without handrails, rooms flagrantly cast open to their surroundings, or homes with no windows at all.
These whimsical, ironic, or otherwise extreme living propositions arrest readers’ attention, baiting us to ask: WTF Japan? The photos travel the blogosphere and social networks under their own momentum, garnering global exposure and international validation for Japan’s outwardly shy, yet media-savvy architects. Afterall, in Japan – the country with the most registered architects per capita – standing out from the crowd is the key to getting ahead for young designers. But what motivates their clients, who opt for such eccentric expressions of lifestyle?