Article source: Hiroaki Takada + Masayuki Nakahata 

Overview of the site

Many buildings stand side by side in the shopping district near the train station. There were many partitioned tenement-houses in this area, but currently rebuilding has been proceeding. There is a platform of the conventional lines on the north side of the site. And there is a municipal road that is parallel to the line on the south side of the site. This is a narrow site is surrounded by buildings which was built to site boundary close, on the east and west side. We designed the building in this narrow site.

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• Architects: Hiroaki Takada + Masayuki Nakahata 
• Project: Everybody finds somebody someplace
• Location: Akishima-shi, Tokyo
• Photography: DAICI ANO, htmn
• Structure design: Ryo Kuwako / Kuwako Architects and Engineers
• Client: private
• Use: clinic + office
• Struture: steel
• Site area: 39.80sqm
• Building area: 29.24sqm
• Total floor area: 79.29m2
• Design period: ’10/4-’12/2
• Construction period: ’12/2-’12/11