This house is in Osaka city, the back of the Karahori shopping district. This site of the only 66 square meters is located in the place where entered 30m the alley from the road.

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Architects: Yoshiaki Yamashita Architect & Associates

Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Architect In Charge: Yoshiaki Yamashita

Design Team: Yoshiaki Yamashita, Kento Morita

Area: 55.7 m2

Photographs: Eiji Tomita

Structural Engineer: Yoshiki Mondo

Constructor: Egawa Kenchiku

Site Area: 66.06 m2

© Eiji Tomita

This house is in Osaka city, the back of the Karahori shopping district. This site of the only 66 square meters is located in the place where entered 30m the alley from the road.Alley width is about 2m.
© Eiji Tomita

Site is a corner lot in contact with the crank. On the south side of the site, there is stone wall exceeds the height 4m and 2 or 3-story house has been built on it. Also other three sides of the site has surrounded by a three-story building.

© Eiji Tomita

Standing on the site, I felt like being in the bottom of a well. First, I tried to capture the stone walls in the house.

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