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Location: Tokyo, Japan
Design: atelier A5
project info:
architectural team: sadahiro shimizu, masatoshi matsuzaki, yuko shimizu
structural planning: hayata matou
site area: 45.73sqm
building area: 25.05sqm
total floor area: 72.83sqm
structure: wood structure
About
FW. House is located in a typical residential area in Tokyo. The site was extremely small; 45sqm in total with a strict set back regulation. Our goal was to find a practical solution to accommodate all the varieties of functions like living room, dining kitchen, bedrooms, working room, and service space within a compact volume with comfort.
We built the maximum volume that the setback regulation allowed on the site. As a result, the roof shape of the house became a pitched roof inclined to the south and the north.
In this maximum envelope, we placed three closed volumes vertically shifted with different functions inside- dining kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. These volumes have a distance of 30cm to each other and so create a void “left over space” used for the living room, working room and service space that can be experienced as one big vertical continuous space.
The outer surfaces of the three volumes were clad with galvanized steel panels independent from being in- or outside, while the inside of each actual volume were painted in different colors. This color and material concept gave the volumes even more independent character. Being inside of one of those volumes there is the illusion of being in a place near the outside. The contrasting whiteness of the interior walls of the maximum envelope gives a feeling of being at home.
