Young married couple building a house in the city area.

© Norihito Yamauchi

Architects: Blemen Architects

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Architect In Charge: Hiroshi Katsumata, Machiko Katsumata

Area: 42.82 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Norihito Yamauchi

© Norihito Yamauchi

Young married couple building a house in the city area.As the number of working people in metropolitan area increases, their residential areas are expanded to the suburbs. Commuting takes more than one hour and this is rare compared to other countries. People prefer to live in the convenient area ; close to the station and with good train access to the office yet those land price tends to be higher i.e. the inheritance tax also higher. So when people cannot afford the high inheritance tax, they sell at the timing of inheritance or split the land and sell.
Sketch

This is about the young married couple with limited budget seeking for the convenience and habitability of the house confronting the needs of housing in this society.

© Norihito Yamauchi

Remake landscape of the town.Site is near by lively shopping street which is called ?Blemen street?. Originally site was split into three sites, and one of them is our planning site which is narrow grounds about 42?. Generally, the houses for thi...