This project is about renewing a wooden single floor house from the 1940s into a vintage clothing store. This takes place in a place 5min from the Omiya Station in Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture.

© Kenta Hasegawa / OFP

Architects: studio201architects · Office Profile

Location: 2 Chome-124 Miyach?, ?miya-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama-ken 330-0802, Japan

Area: 94.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Kenta Hasegawa / OFP · Photographer Profile

Interior Design: Manabu Okano / studio201architect

Construction: Asanuma builders

© Kenta Hasegawa / OFP

From the architect. This project is about renewing a wooden single floor house from the 1940s into a vintage clothing store. This takes place in a place 5min from the Omiya Station in Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture.
Floor Plan

Being originally a habitation, the building has a street on the south side and a garden on the north face. There are a multitude of openings that provide the interior with a constant natural light. Another particularity is the attic under the roof. This now rarely found ?bark roofing? truly brings us back in time to the 1940s.

© Kenta Hasegawa / OFP

For this project featuring a unique natural light, I wanted to embellish the positive aspect of a wooden living house form the 1940s and combi...