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Extraordinary Ordinary House
This residence in central Tokyo is the second of two houses located a minute?s walk from one another, both occupied on a routine basis by the client. The client?s sole request was that we create a modern space made up of elements lacking in the first house. This explains the rather unusual plan: a rec room and wine cave in the basement, a garage and lounge on the first floor, a space for entertaining on the second, and walk-in closets on the third.
© Masao Nishikawa
The project fits neither the typical definition of a regular house?that is, a place to spend everyday life?nor that of a vacation home, a place to escape everyday life. Rather, it sits somewhere between the two, intended to expand ordinary life and cast it in a fresh light. In a typical vacation home, it is possible to create a sense of the extraordinary simply by opening up the building to the surrounding environment. In this case, however, because of the small urban lot, only so much could be done through manipulation of the form in relationship to natural light and the garden. We therefore employed an alternate strategy of handling the entire project, from façade to interiors, furniture, and fabrics, as one borderless whole, each of whose parts is of equal value, thereby creating a new kind of environmental expression.
© Masao Nishikawa
With every small interval of passing time and shift in natural light, the dense collage of materials used throughout the house takes on a s...
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