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THE WALL - Renovation in Meguro
THE WALL - Renovation in Meguro
Tokyo, Japan
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THE WALL - Renovation in Meguro
Tokyo, Japan
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
A housing renovation in a 24-year-old apartment building located in a residential district of Meguro, Tokyo.
Total floor of 110 sqm has been refurbished for a young family.
Among multi-story small independent houses which are also common in this metropolis, we believe that the best possibility for richness of living in an apartment lies in “extensive experience of flat space”.
Located on northwest corner on the second floor, the apartment has a slender floor shape and faces two different surroundings, adjacent to a quiet historic Buddhist temple on the north and a lively street with cherry trees on the west.
Although space planning in an apartment tends to have limited relations with surroundings, located in such a characteristic environment, creating “living spaces correlated with the local surroundings” has become another design theme of the project.
We built a wall runs through the floor longitudinally and creates two areas reflecting local surroundings.
Open living and dining space for gathering is located on the west and filled with natural light, whereas bedrooms and study for resting and thinking are facing the north and enveloped with calm atmosphere.
From the open living room you can enjoy cherry blossoms and hear people walking on the street below. And in the bedrooms you see historical wooden buildings in silence and feel the breeze coming through the temple.
The wall consists of wooden panels with random joint patterns, and doors are concealed in the pattern as if they are secret doors.
Large surface is divided into human-scale segments, and yet once the doors are closed, it is recognized as 13-meter-long one flat wall, creating a sense of expanse.
Living in the spaces of nature and history, vigor and quiet, also provides you, not physical, but experiential expanse.
Embodying both spatial situations by the wall, we intent to create the rich expanse of space which can only be realized on this location.
Total floor of 110 sqm has been refurbished for a young family.
Among multi-story small independent houses which are also common in this metropolis, we believe that the best possibility for richness of living in an apartment lies in “extensive experience of flat space”.
Located on northwest corner on the second floor, the apartment has a slender floor shape and faces two different surroundings, adjacent to a quiet historic Buddhist temple on the north and a lively street with cherry trees on the west.
Although space planning in an apartment tends to have limited relations with surroundings, located in such a characteristic environment, creating “living spaces correlated with the local surroundings” has become another design theme of the project.
We built a wall runs through the floor longitudinally and creates two areas reflecting local surroundings.
Open living and dining space for gathering is located on the west and filled with natural light, whereas bedrooms and study for resting and thinking are facing the north and enveloped with calm atmosphere.
From the open living room you can enjoy cherry blossoms and hear people walking on the street below. And in the bedrooms you see historical wooden buildings in silence and feel the breeze coming through the temple.
The wall consists of wooden panels with random joint patterns, and doors are concealed in the pattern as if they are secret doors.
Large surface is divided into human-scale segments, and yet once the doors are closed, it is recognized as 13-meter-long one flat wall, creating a sense of expanse.
Living in the spaces of nature and history, vigor and quiet, also provides you, not physical, but experiential expanse.
Embodying both spatial situations by the wall, we intent to create the rich expanse of space which can only be realized on this location.
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