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Architects: Ikeda Yukie Ono Toshiharu Architects
- Area: 96 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Koichi Torimura
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Manufacturers: NISC, Nuprotec, Saikai Sangyo
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Text description provided by the architects. MU consists of a dwelling for a couple combined with a photo studio in the small northern city, Hachinohe, Aomori. People often gathered at the existing studio as if it were a meeting place of the town, and we aimed to maintain that atmosphere while considering the couple's privacy.
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Taking the hard climate into account, we looked for openness, not only by physical transparency.
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In accordance with the low-rise residential neighborhood, the volume is formed into a deconstructed quadrangular pyramid with a low façade facing the street and rising back up towards the North. Inside the pyramid, the privacy-cores are piled in tiers, while the surrounding spaces are open.
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The mountain-like presence of the form invites people, while the large open space enclosed by powerful frame structures is receptive to both privacy and publicity. A privacy-core opens with sliding doors, which enables efficient use in the flexibility to adjust the area of private and public.
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With this system, the dwelling can open a lot of the space to the public, and by that the dwellers in this shrinking city can gain social capital through rich relations.
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