The site is located between reinforced concrete mid-to-high-rise apartments and an old wooden housing area, where it almost feels like you are left out in an island.  It is a dwelling for a couple with music studio, in such a complex Tokyo-like environment.

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Architects: miCo., Ako Nagao architects

Location: Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan

Architect In Charge: Ako Nagao, Mizuki Imamura + Isao Shinohara

Area: 88.93 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Shinkenchiku-sya

Structural Engineer: Yasushi Moribe

Construction: STYLE

Site Area: 43.154 sqm

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From the architect. The site is located between reinforced concrete mid-to-high-rise apartments and an old wooden housing area, where it almost feels like you are left out in an island.  It is a dwelling for a couple with music studio, in such a complex Tokyo-like environment.
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Floor Plan

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We felt it is not appropriate to have a building for this particular site that is either ?building type or ?house type.?  So we made a volume to be gradually connecting the two facades, the apartment side with a small window on vertical big wall and the housing side with a large ?Mado? and low leaves.  The volume needed t...