House In Kugayama

House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura

House in Kugayama

Mico

ARCHITECTS
Mico

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Mizuki Imamura, Isao Shinohara

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Yasushi Moribe

CONSTRUCTION
Style

PHOTOGRAPHS
Koichi Torimura

SITE AREA
135.09 Sqm

AREA
119 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This is the renovation, located in the western Tokyo residential area.

House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura

We had to adjust the boundary, from the greenbelt to the living space configured with territory of the layer, tracing in the city of configuration with some of the territory of the layer.

Providing the Engawa, breaking the high fence, planting trees in the garden. Windows and the balcony renovated, to feel the greenbelt.

House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura

Privateroom was in space that can adjust the sense of openness, by joinery that put the glass to the existing foundation. We want to be the space with depth, by placing them in the boundary layer.


House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura
House In Kugayama
© Koichi Torimura


House In Kugayama
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