Minna No Ie

Minna No Ie

MINNA NO IE

MAMM DESIGN

ARCHITECTS
MAMM DESIGN

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan

TYPE
Residential › Private House

The plot is wedged between houses in every direction. To escape the claustrophobic living situation in the city, we tried to extend our consciousness beyond the borders of this physically tiny site.

Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie

The project’s name, “MINNA NO IE” (Everyone’s House), suggests that the house has no strict borders.

In Japanese residential district, we have to leave at least 50cm gap between neighboring plots.

To make openings towards those void spaces carefully, we can feel the house much larger than its floor area of 54 square-meters.

Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie

The 6-meters-high garden room in the middle of the house brings a sense of outdoors with its grey brick floor.

When you enter the house, you may feel as if you are back to outside.

You may feel as if you would be in a small park in a city somewhere.

Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie

But the next moment, you will feel the space as interior, where the occupants spend their daily lives.

It’s this co-existence that gives the house its unique atmosphere.

Each small room has an open connection with the garden room, no doors at all.

Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie

The void space works as a catalyst between these spaces and creates variety of relationships among its occupants.


Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie


Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie
Minna No Ie