The Japanese architects at House in Minamimachi by Suppose Design Office
The Japanese architects at House in Minamimachi have designed by Suppose Design Office, located in the Minamimachi, Hiroshima of Japan. The house is designed with offset floors allowing natural light from above to penetrate each level. In their research suppose design office noted that the existing building designs in the Minamimachi, Hiroshimao area did not allow for a window opening into the adjacent property. The house can can be naturally illuminated while maintaining privacy on a small, crowded plot of land. The interior comprises a series of terraces, each shaped differently according to its intended purpose. During the process of designing for a small plot of land, there are a lot of times in which the form of the building is steered by legal constraints. If you are thinking of how you can have the most floor space, the outer shape of the building is automatically decided by how the permitted ratio of square footage to property size, so the architectural design comes out of the number of stories built just to increase the floor space.
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