This is the rebuilt small house for elderly couple in a small country town in Gifu. Two daughters are already grown, are working at Tokyo, and don?t intend to come back here for next 30 years at least.

© Takumi Ota

Architects: Hiroki Tominaga-Atelier

Location: Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Architect In Charge: Hiroki Tominaga, Yae Fujima

Area: 65.97 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Takumi Ota

© Takumi Ota

From the architect. This is the rebuilt small house for elderly couple in a small country town in Gifu. Two daughters are already grown, are working at Tokyo, and don?t intend to come back here for next 30 years at least.
© Takumi Ota

It is clear that the lifespan of house is clearly longer than the lifespan of the owner. So we architects have to think about how the new house can be the part of landscape in such shrinking country town.

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On the south side, there is highway, where many shops stands besides originally. We generally put the house back to the north side from the street, to get sun light or avoid from traffic noise, as the surrounding houses did. But we think that it should be avoided at the very beginning. If we build a new house in the above-mentioned situation, it has to contribute to the landscape of this street, we think.

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