Schemata Architects

Sayama Flat

Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota

PHOTOGRAPHS
Takumi Ota

AREA
2227.24 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Sayama-shi, Japan

CATEGORY
Apartment Interiors

Text description provided by architect.

In this renovation project we have refurbished an apartment block that was built in the post war period of high economic growth in Japan.

Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota

The building was originally designed to provide 30 residential rooms using a housing module called ‘nLDK’, an efficient system widely used in Japan.

We attempted to redesign this standardized series of spaces to provide accommodation suitable for a complexity of contemporary lifestyles.

Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota

The design principle we followed here was redesigning the space only by removing elements without adding, and improvising the layout of each of the apartments on site, without having drawn their plans in advance.

Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota


Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat

Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota
Sayama Flat
© Takumi Ota


Sayama Flat
Sketch of Plan
Sayama Flat
Sketch of Plan

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