Article source: ARTechnic architects

By expanding and adjusting the existing land condition and nature within, I have attempted to create a space which provides dwelling as like a part of the nature.

The shape has been finalized rationally and organically in the forming process of dealing with the site condition and requested function. Not only the result of the form being organic, by paying attention to the organic matter of the planning process, the process itself perhaps produced the organic space.

Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.

• Architects: ARTechnic architects
• Project: SRK
• Location: Meguro, Tokyo
• Photography: Nacasa & Partners Inc.
• Software used: Archicad
• Assistant: Ruri Mitsuyasu
• Structural engineer: Naomi Kitayama / NAO
• Client: Kazuyuki Shirakura
• Site:
  • Conditions Residential area
  • Semi-fire protection area
  • Front street:5.45m
• Scale:
  • Building scale: 2 stories / Maximum height 6.89m
  • Site area: 234.44 m2
  • Building area: 113.54 m2 (building coverage ratio 48.43 legal max.50)
  • Total floor area: 176.08 m2 (floor area ratio 71.18 legal max.100)
  • B1 floor: 9.2 m2
  • 1 floor: 101.22 m2
  • 2 floor: 65.66 m2
• Process of work:
  • Design and construction
  • Management period Jun, 2012-Jun, 2013
  • Construction period Jun, 2013-Jun, 2014

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