Apartment in Minami-Azabu
The site, an elongated square to the east and west, the frontage 7m, depth 20m, is located in the middle of a gentle plateau.
Though the site frontage is narrow and locate the slope areas, and also permitted only 4 floor by the legal constraints, we are asked to plan the 5 houses from client. While cramming the volume as much as possible in a narrow site of the dense residential areas, maximizing floor area , with consideration to the line of sight interference and ventilation, brithtness of dwelling environment, it becomes a theme how we secure the connection with the environment.
Rather than draw a clear boundary line between the dwelling and nature, or city and the architecture, by using a vertical domain that considers the moderate distance between environment and architecture, we hope the place settled as where the dwellings, nature and the city are mixed and well harmonized.
