Article source: Aki Hamada Architects Inc. 

The site is in a community in Toyama with a houses and shops sprawling in a relatively relaxed manner. There is a playground in the neighboring area on the southeastern side, and the Tateyama mountain range can be seen beyond that. We placed an L-shape volume like the chumon-zukuri (a traditional L-shaped style house) inside the trapezoidal-shaped site, and arranged a child room and garage that can be used as a future shop facing a front road on the west side. Considering the snowfall, taking the distance to the north side neighbor, as well as setting the center of living space on the second floor on the southeastern park side, enable the house to be open to the park side while securing privacy.

Image Courtesy © Takumi Ota

• Architects: Aki Hamada Architects Inc. (Aki Hamada, Takeshi Tanabe)
• Project: House in Shimomuraki
• Location: Shimomuraki, Japan
  
• Photography: Takumi Ota
  
• Konishi Structural Engineers: (Yasutaka Konishi, Noboru Enshu)
• Total Floor Area: 118 m2
• Site Area: 195.15 m2
• Building Area: 46 m2
• Date: 2017

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