Maximizing a 280-square-foot plot, House Tokyo by Unemori Architects makes clever use of ceiling heights and half levels.
Sandwiched between neighboring houses on a densely populated street, House Tokyo by Unemori Architects reads as a stack of corrugated steel boxes. With a building area of just 280 square feet to work with, the architects managed to carve out an interior square footage of nearly double that by strategically manipulating the volumes.
Unemori Architects designed the exterior walls to be partially set back as a way to increase surface area and allow for more light to be ushered inside. In Tokyo, tiny plots of land are the standard, says principal architect Hiroyuki Unemori. Houses in the city have to be compact and cleverly structured. With House Tokyo, we reacted to the challenge by designing the house as stacked, interlinked cubes with a very open floor plan.
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