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House for Four Generations in Tokyo
Japanese Interior Renovation Project in Tokyo, Japan – design by tomomi kito architect & associates
20 Nov 2017
House for Four Generations
Design: tomomi kito architect & associates
Location: Tokyo, Japan
House for Four Generations

This is an interior renovation project of an existing two-story timber structure house in Tokyo which was built approximately 40 years ago.

The clients, a young couple and the wife?s parents, were already living here before the renovation.

Soon after, the wife?s grandmother, who lived alone in the countryside far from Tokyo, also decided to move in. As such, the clients requested to renovate the house and to make it suitable for accommodating 4 generations?the grandmother (1st generation), the parents (2nd generation), the clients (3rd generation), the clients? son (4th generation).
As the age as well as daily living rhythm of each family member are different, creating a space to promote a comfortable connection among them was one of the major challenges of the project.

Another focus was the provision of a comfortable living environment. The existing conditions of daylight and ventilation were not preferable since the existing rooms were split into smaller functions and as such they were not open to the exterior environment nor to each other, which led to poor daylight and natural ventil...