Article source: Ryu Mitarai & Associates, Architects

The building is located in Shioya Town, Shioya County, Tochigi Prefecture. Surrounded by the houses and fields that have Ohya stone warehouses, the scenery continues to be long and quiet.

The family keeps this large land from generation to generation, where there is a main house, a remote, a storehouse, a store, a well, a field, a garden. And when the young son got married, he told me that he wanted to make another one away.

Image Courtesy © Kai Nakamura

• Architects: Ryu Mitarai & Associates, Architects
• Project: House in Shioyamachi
• Location: Shioyamachi, Japan
• Photography: Kai Nakamura
• Completion Year: 2018

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