The site is located in a residential area in the suburb of Saitama New Urban Center. Old existing roads were laid out unsystematically, and housing lots facing these roads have irregular shapes. Individual houses stand in a kind of echelon-formation to make the best of the irregular-shaped properties, and as a result its exterior walls are divided into small portions, creating small intimate scales in the streetscape. This site is located at the edge of such residential district.

© Hiroyuki Hirai

Architects: +S Architect

Location: Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Architect In Charge: Shintaro Matsushita, Takashi Suzuki

Construction Company: GS-BUILD
Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Hiroyuki Hirai

© Hiroyuki Hirai

From the architect. The site is located in a residential area in the suburb of Saitama New Urban Center. Old existing roads were laid out unsystematically, and housing lots facing these roads have irregular shapes. Individual houses stand in a kind of echelon-formation to make the best of the irregular-shaped properties, and as a result its exterior walls are divided into small portions, creating small intimate scales in the streetscape. This site is located at the edge of such residential district.

© Hiroyuki Hirai

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