A landscape of livings woven together

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Architects: Eureka, MARU?architecture

Location: Urawa Ward, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Area: 235.42 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Ookura Hideki

Structural: Nakahata Atsuhiro

Environmental: Hori Eisuke

General Contractor: TH-1

Eureka: Inagaki Junya, Sano Satoshi, Hori Eisuke

Maru?Architecture: Yohei Takano, Sachiko Morita

Project Architects: Emi Sano(ex-staff), Hikaru Takei(ex-staff), Kazunori Yamaguchi(ex-staff), Tomonori Kajita(ex-staff), Naoki Inomata, Kyohei Takahashi(ex-staff)

Client: Katsuhiro Honda
© Ookura Hideki

A landscape of livings woven togetherA project of a 7 unit apartment on a corner of a suburban residential district.The project aims to create a landscape of diverse livings appearing from each external space placed randomly throughout the apartment.

© Ookura Hideki

Site Plan + 1st Floor

 Regional environments shaped as a three-dimension composition of living spacesA balancing-toy-like-steel structure enables larger masses on the upper floors to stretch out,leaving a pilotis continuous from the street.Creation of public space for the residential district is sought by fully expanding the advantage of the two-sided site.To make up for the mass lost by opening the grou...