Ebisu Town House in Tokyo, Japan by Naoya Kawabe Architect &

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Ebisu Town House in Tokyo, Japan by Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

October 17th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

This site appears when walking while gentle slope the alley of the width of about 2.5m by about 30m. Surroundings are built of the house, and see Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway in front of the east side. The connected alley is drawn in to the site as it is in the townhouse in 12 households in all, and the building is arranged on the both sides dividing the volume into two. This building slightly extends the end of a past alley, and makes the depths that comes off to the sky. As for the wall that places the alley and is opposite, a slit window is set up along the ceiling side. It becomes the interface of each unit and the outside, and controls the relation of the room mutually opposite. Implications of the town and the unit of house become shape in a secluded most place in the town district, and it appears.

Image Courtesy © Ken’ichi Suzuki

Architects: Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates
Project: Ebisu Town House
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Photography: Ken’ichi Suzuki
Construction Year: 2006

Image Courtesy © Ken’ichi Suzuki

Image Courtesy © Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

: Image Courtesy © Ken’ichi Suzuki

: Image Courtesy © Ken’ichi Suzuki

: Image Courtesy © Ken’ichi Suzuki

: Image Courtesy © Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

: Image Courtesy © Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

: Image Courtesy © Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

: Image Courtesy © Naoya Kawabe Architect & Associates

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Tags: Japan, Tokyo

Categories: Apartments, House, Residential

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