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This small and nice residential design in Australia is inspired by practicality, with a twist. Sitting atop a small footprint, the modern Szirtes House, created by Chenchow Little Architects, is enclosed in an aesthetic armor that provides privacy from the outside. But at its heart lies a haven – a tree within an enclosed outdoor courtyard – which is the centerpiece of this contemporary home’s ultra-innovative layout. Floor-to-ceilings sliding-glass doors open onto this inner sanctum. Inside, each room offers a piece of this curious light-filled box, which beams through the …
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Architect: Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect and Associates
Structural Engineer: Shuji Tada
Photographs: NAKAGAME Atelier
Phase: Construction Document
Structure: Wood structure, 2 stories
Description from the Architect:
The site is situated within a residential district on hilly landscape, quite prevalent townscape in Yokohama city. Located 1m below the confronting street, there is a flatland that occupies two-thirds of the site and the rest is the sloped land descending down to the playground of an adjacent kindergarten.
An approach to the house draws a clockwise trajectory. Walking through the parking that acts as an approach beside the house, one will …
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Architect: Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect and Associates
Structural Engineer: Kozo Sekkei Kobo
Contractor: Nakagame Construction
Photographs:Takeshi Taira
Site Area: 281.34m2
Building Area: 84.61m2
Project Starts: October 1998
Project Completed: December 1999
Structure: Reinforced Concrete, 3 stories and 1 basement
Description
The site sits on top of the hill consisted of mixture of old and new residential neighborhood. From the site one will find the rows of cherry trees planted in the adjacent school on the north east side.
Our design approach was to establish the relationship between the house and the surrounding greeneries which becomes valuable elements especially in the contemporary urbanized …
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Location: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
Architects: Kiyonobu Nakagame & Associates
Engineers: Kanebako structural engineers
General contractor: Prolog
Completion date: September, 2007
Photographs: K.Torimura
Japanese architects Kiyonobu Nakagame have updated their website, showing work including House in Sendai-Kasumi. The house, overlooking the city of Sendai, was completed in September last year.
The house sits on the hill top that overlooks the city of Sendai, situated within the area called Yakiyama offering magnificent views of cliffs that rise from the Hirose River running at the bottom.
The site has an elongated configuration in a North/South orientation, adjoined by existing houses on …
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Japanese architects Akiyoshi Takagi, Yuji Nakae and Hirofumi Ohno have collaborated on NE Apartments, a block of eight apartments for motorcycle enthusiasts in Tokyo.
