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© Hiroyuki Hirai
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© Hiroyuki Hirai

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Be-fun Design + Yusuke Matsumoto Architects

ARCHITECTS
Be-fun Design, Yusuke Matsumoto Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Tsuyoshi Shindo, Yusuke Matsumoto, Yuki Nakano

MANUFACTURERS
Sanwa, Vector Foiltec, Chiyoda Ute, Kmew, Panasonic, Sankyo Tateyama

ENGINEERING
Kozo Ando Structure Planning Office

CONSTRUCTION
Gs-build

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hiroyuki Hirai

AREA
201 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Meguro, Japan

CATEGORY
Houses, Apartments

Text description provided by the architects.

This is a 4-dwelling unit apartment of a wooden frame house in Ookayama, Meguro-ku.

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© Hiroyuki Hirai
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We aimed the apartment so that the people who live in this apartment and has a great deal of personality can coexist and communicate and the way of being like that will spread out to the community.

Seeking for the possibility of distance from the district and diversity way of living, we focused on the external elements such as the terraces, gardens, outer walls and studied on how to open and close the building.

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© Hiroyuki Hirai
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© Hiroyuki Hirai

We plan to arrange terraces on the entire site including the building so that one’s living can be expand inside and outside continuously.

In addition, each dwelling unit is planned in a different format (1 room, courthouse, laminated format, etc.) to accommodate various lifestyles.

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© Hiroyuki Hirai
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The building structure has an RC high foundation provided on the first floor as an external element (adjacent land external fence, concrete block fence, etc.), and a wooden frame one-story building placed upon it.

The RC high foundation withstand the horizontal force and makes it possible to reduce the structural load on the outer circumference and provide a wide opening.

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© Hiroyuki Hirai
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By actively incorporating the garden and surrounding environment (adjacent land and streets), people can feel the things outside closer.

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© Hiroyuki Hirai
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© Hiroyuki Hirai


Rk_flat
© Hiroyuki Hirai
Rk_flat
© Hiroyuki Hirai
Rk_flat
© Hiroyuki Hirai
Rk_flat
© Hiroyuki Hirai
Rk_flat
© Hiroyuki Hirai


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Plan - First floor
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Plan - Second floor
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Plan - Loft floor
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Elevation - South


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Cross section - AA
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Cross section - BB

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