Nowhere but Sajima provides a temporary ?home? for its guests. The weekly rental service provided by Nowhere Resort is a relatively new method of operating resort properties in Japan and allows different tenants the opportunity to inhabit a ?home? on a weekly basis. While the weekly term is short compared to a standard monthly rental and long compared to a hotel stay, this in-between length accommodates a new diversity of uses of a ?home?. Serving as a space for exhibitions, as a classroom or for wedding parties, the unit easily adapts to the imagination and invention of the tenant and in doing so also re-defines the range of activities that can take place in the ?home?. As well as accommodating the functions of work and business, the ?home? again becomes the space of many life events besides the basic function of ?inhabitance?. In acquiring a new program for use, the ?home? regains the richness of activity that can take place all around of life.
© Yasutaka Yoshimura

Architects: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Location: Yokosuka, Japan

Category: Houses

Client: Nowhere resort

Structural Engineer: Akira Suzuki/ASA

General Contractor: Heisei Construction

Area: 176.65 m2

Project Year: 2009

Photographs: Yasutaka Yoshimura, Chiaki Yasukawa

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