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Architects:
OOOarchitecture - Area:
86m² -
Year:
2026 -
Photographs:
Shota Hiyoshi -
Manufacturers: Marushi Mokuzai, Tokyo Koei
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Lead Architects: Yo Sato, Ryohei Baba, Hikomaru Wada
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Text description provided by the architects. This wooden family home is located in a residential neighborhood in Inage Ward, Chiba City, Japan. The design is organized around an L-shaped, single-story plan that embraces a central garden. Rather than serving merely as an ancillary outdoor space, the garden forms the heart of the living environment, continually exposed to the changing conditions of light, wind, rain, and plant life.
In A Story of the Garden, Tsunehiro Uno describes the garden as an imperfect space that humans cannot fully control. He suggests that encounters with things that resist the standardized bodily experiences of a "platformed" society can help people recover their inherently diverse physicality. In this project, the rooms are arranged around the garden as an uncertain center, gently connecting the family's living spaces.
Beyond the entrance—a long, narrow opening along the street—a small courtyard comes into view. The space beneath the deep eaves extending along th...