tamotsu ito architecture office . photos: © Masaharu Okuda / tamotsu ito architecture office
House in Tajimi is a single-family house for a young couple who have lived in the neighbourhood since childhood. The city, and especially this neighborhood is known for its long-lasting pottery industry, with winding and sloping roads and topography, the town scape is comprised of houses, tile/ pottery factories, and concrete-block fences; these “House,” “Factory,” and “Block Fence” are what we have restructured as a small home for the client’s everyday life. Embracing the bricolage of local elements into this relatively small architecture in comparison to surroundings, House in Tajimi provides the possibility for their life and spatial experiences to be expanded continuously to outside town-scapes. Continue reading tamotsu ito
