Y-House Designer: IDEAoffice
Location: Saitama, Japan
Image Credits: Kouichi Torimura The forms and organizations of the urban single-family house (along with a variety of other building types) have been driven toward extreme versions of efficiency by an ever-increasing metropolitan density. In a city like Tokyo, increasing land values, proximity to public transportation and the recognized value of maintaining a maximum amount of undeveloped open space outside of the city limits have produced models of ‘existence minimum’ that eclipse any western precedents; we marvel at the phenomenon of the ‘Tokyo dwelling’, where the most is made with the least. → archinect.com Posted: 10/28/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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