Article source: Tato Architects

Widening interspace to utilize

Many of the requests to us for designing a house are accompanied with a prerequisite of ensuring a house for a nuclear family at an extremely subdivided lot, to whichwe cannot easily applythe manners of architecture having been accumulated for long time in Japan. We repeated trials and errors while designing as we think we are in the formative period for a new manner.

Image Courtesy © Koichi Torimura

• Architects: Tato Architects
• Project: House in Itami
• Location: Itami, Japan
• Photography: Koichi Torimura
• Site area: 59.16m2
• Building area: 34.95m2
• Total floor area: 95.79m2
• Type of Construction: Steel
• Program: House
• Principal designer: Yo shimada
• Design period: Jun. 2010 – Oct. 2011
• Construction period: May. 2012 – Sep. 2012
• Software used: Vectorworks