Article source: Yutaka Yoshida Archtect & Associates

The site is located in a dense neighborhood of low-rise postwar houses, a short distance from the streetcar line that connects central Hiroshima to the Port of Hiroshima. The site, where the client was born and raised, originally consisted of a two-story wooden house that had been extended and reconstructed to fill the entire site, in close proximity to an adjacent house. For the reconstruction, the design direction was set to actively create an exterior space in the densely populated surrounding environment, and to realize a rich, expansive, and continuous living space to the exterior.

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• Architects: Yutaka Yoshida Archtect & Associates
• Project: House in Ujinamiyuki
• Location: Ujinamiyuki, Japan
• Software used: Vector Works

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