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House in Kodaira by Suppose Design Office
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a house in Tokyo surrounded on one side by a tent.
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Called House in Kodaira, the two-storey residence is surrounded by a small garden but overlooked by passers-by.
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The tent structure covers a courtyard, providing a semi-outdoor area but maintaining privacy.
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Photographs are by Toshiyuki Yano.
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The following information is from the architects:
House in Kodaira
This is a residential project that has a unique garden at the front of the house. The building, located in a residential area in Kodaira-shi, Tokyo, was designed for 4 family members.
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The site is located in a place where it is directly connected to the public street.
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Because of the conditions, our theme was to create a house to open to the outside yet it could keep a private space.
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There is a front yard at the dwelling. We were considering the garden to connect the outside and inside but also to separate them for keeping the personal environment.
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To create the courtyard as a semi private zone, a tent structure was used for a partition to separate the two spaces.
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The tent is covering the garden as if it was a roof, a wall and also a fence.
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The structure creates the outside environment as a part of interior of the house.
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Moreover, the sliding doors at the living room can be totally open to the front garden to engage the comfortable green space to the private rooms.
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We hope the residence could create an environment for more communities with neighbors that we used to have before, and reminds people the new relationship between a city and buildings, buildings and people.
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Location: Kodaira city,Tokyo ,Japan
Principal use: personal house
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Site area: 117.29sqm
Building area: 50.87sqm
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Total floor area: 93.04sqm (1F: 50.75sqm, 2F: 42.29sqm)
Completion: February. 2009
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Design period: 2007.11-2008.05
Construction period: 2009.07-2010.2
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Structure: Timber construction, 2 story
Architect: Makoto Tanijiri [suppose design office]
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In charge: Yuji kaichida [suppose design office]
Structural engineer: Hirofumi Ohno [ohno-japan]
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In charge: Hidetaka Nakahara [ohno-japan]
General concrete: Niihori corporation
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