It is a steeled house with shop consisted of ?1 core?, ?2 volumes?, and ?3 stories?.

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Architects: Kazuya Saito Architects

Location: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Area: 167.41 ft2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Yasuhiro Takagi

Structural Design : Atsuhiro Nakahata

Builder: Kyoei Housing

Site Area: 94.33 sqm

Building Area: 69.63 sqm

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It is a steeled house with shop consisted of ?1 core?, ?2 volumes?, and ?3 stories?.Miyagino, located 1.5 km east of Sendai station, is the active area packed with sports facilities such as a baseball stadium and general athletic park. The site has a frontage of 8 m and a depth of 11 m. There used to be a two-story wooden house as a Tofu shop owned by a client?s grandfather, so the clients were living in this house and running a cafe. Because the house became old and the clients expected new family members, they requested a rebuilding of two-family dwelling combined with a cafe shop.
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Plan

The surrounding area used to be a shopping street, so a row of narrow buildings remains as the trace of the old days. If we piled up the requested floor space from clients while setting the height at 9 m to relax the legal limitation, the house would be a huge...