House U / Atelier KUKKA Architects
This is a small house with red cedar outer walls, for a couple, located in Tokyo, Japan. It was built to the end of a street (extending 150m over 3blocks) with a? impressive cherry tree, in a quiet residential area slightly away from the city center.
© Kai Nakamura
Architects: Atelier KUKKA Architects
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Area: 67.4 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
From the architect. This is a small house with red cedar outer walls, for a couple, located in Tokyo, Japan. It was built to the end of a street (extending 150m over 3blocks) with a? impressive cherry tree, in a quiet residential area slightly away from the city center.
© Kai Nakamura
The site was a small one in the dense residential areas. It surrounded by houses on three sides, with loopholes of light and wind coming from diagonal directions.
© Kai Nakamura
Owner requested an impressive form of the house, like an objet heading to the street. They also wanted to feel a presence of the cherry tree while in the room, but didn?t need a large window capable of peeking from the outside.
Floor Plan
For that requests and a purpose of introducing light and wind, based on a rectangular arrangement, I made a design that cut a southwest corner of the house, arranging a garden. and designed two windo...
© Kai Nakamura
Architects: Atelier KUKKA Architects
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Area: 67.4 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
From the architect. This is a small house with red cedar outer walls, for a couple, located in Tokyo, Japan. It was built to the end of a street (extending 150m over 3blocks) with a? impressive cherry tree, in a quiet residential area slightly away from the city center.
© Kai Nakamura
The site was a small one in the dense residential areas. It surrounded by houses on three sides, with loopholes of light and wind coming from diagonal directions.
© Kai Nakamura
Owner requested an impressive form of the house, like an objet heading to the street. They also wanted to feel a presence of the cherry tree while in the room, but didn?t need a large window capable of peeking from the outside.
Floor Plan
For that requests and a purpose of introducing light and wind, based on a rectangular arrangement, I made a design that cut a southwest corner of the house, arranging a garden. and designed two windo...
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