Article source: Takeru Shoji Architects Co., Ltd.

The site is located in an old and quiet neighborhood of Sakata city, Yamagata prefecture, near the national highway that runs through the Tohoku region.
On house is designed for a family of four whose design brief detailed the need for a house that can cater to the individuality of each member of the family. The clients wanted a house where each member of the family can have their own space but they can feel the presence of others around them.

With this brief in mind, we scattered 3 towers on the large 330 square meter site and connected them using a deep eave band at the mid-level of the towers. When the residents travel in between the towers, they will invariably cross spaces, like the doma (cement floor) corridor or the terrace, under this eave band and the soffit of this eave mediates the different spaces and connect them on a horizontal plane.

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• Architects: Takeru Shoji Architects Co., Ltd.
• Project: On house
• Location: Sakata, Japan

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