A house for four people that was built on a mini-development site. To ensure privacy, a fence runs along the boundary line of the property and the street. The fence is designed as the facade of the house. 

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Architects: Hitotomori/Tomoko

Location: Matsubara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Area: 78.7 sqm

Photographs: Youhei Sasakura

Team: Yoshiaki Nagasaka, Hane-Kenchiku-Koubou, Masuo Shiojiri

Constructor: Hane-Kenchiku-Koubou

© Youhei Sasakura

From the architect. A house for four people that was built on a mini-development site. To ensure privacy, a fence runs along the boundary line of the property and the street. The fence is designed as the facade of the house. 
© Youhei Sasakura

Morning light is filtered through a large square of frosted glass within the fence to fall on the dining room table.  Light also passes  between the top of the fence and the eaves of the house and is diffused by the leaves of the trees along the fence creating an effect one would not expect from the relative dreary surrounding environment.  Because of the placement of a veranda in the back garden, light is able to enter from the space between the neighbouring building and the Fence House; the light seemingly sublimates off the brass door of a Buddhist home alter. 

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