This project is a multiplex house that is composed by basement floor + 3 stories. A child household live in the first floor, a parent household live in second floor, a grandmother household live in the third floor. And in the basement floor, there is a training room for Kendo which is a common hobby of the all families.
There are formed the slope of an angle of 30 degree as breakwater in the project site of north side. Over the slope, there are a nature park, then, it can be seen Mt.Fuji clearly. The slope and park, and these sight are very attractive as one of scene, however, to get in these scene to the house, it is necessary to control of eyes of which people come and go on there.
The project site is unusual shape like a home plate. At the south side, there are rich forest, it is blessed with green. The clients are young couple with child, and their parents. They wished duplex house, it is not only to keep with independent of each family but also to feel connection.
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From the station with the bus for about 20 minutes, long and slender site from east to west is project site which is enclosed surroundings by the field and the house where height is low. This project is a house of two families for the young marrieds and the child, the parents and the daughter.
In Osdorp, southwest of Amsterdam, major changes took place to transform a vacant zone into a residential district connected to the existing housing area alongside it. One part of the residential district is a public garden, Jan van Zutphenplantsoen, where the four towers stand along a newly created water-park. All four towers are sited according to the given urban footprint and take up the maximum envelope, giving a total of 390 apartments evenly distributed over 11 levels.
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Jan Bitter and Christian Richters)
The Hotel and Sport School Zenden is located within three monumental town houses near the river Maas in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The hotel’s history begins in the late sixties, and originally contained only a pool for swimming lessons. Over the years other functions such as hotel rooms and a Judo school were implemented into the program. Upon the facilities reaching spatial limits, a renovation and reorganisation of the program was needed.
3 stories timber structure house built in a dense residential area in Setagaya, Tokyo. The 7x12m plot is surrounded by narrow street and alley, so it was required to set back the building façade. The ground floor volume is set back for 1.5m and the upper level pitched roof volume is set back further for 2m. Even this house has a descent volume, this arrangement makes it fit to the scale of the surrounding.
Since the end of the Francisco Franco era, when government spending was drastically cut in Spain, the demand for social housing has steadily continued to rise. Taking into consideration eighty percent of Spain’s population are homeowners and the citizens’ strong candid views towards rental housing – the availability of affordable public housing has slowly dwindled. For the past 25 years, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo de Madrid (EMVS), the state-run housing association, has been spearheading architectural innovation throughout Madrid. By inviting internationally renowned foreign architects to team-up with local firms – the EMVS is rethinking the notion of modern-day social housing in Spain.
The interior design for the new Puma House Tokyo, located in the city’s Aoyama design district. Puma House Tokyo combines Puma brand’s press room and event space into one space for the first time. Puma House Tokyo is a multipurpose space that can be used for exhibitions, events, fittings, product launches and other media events. It is also available for rentals.