Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office

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Akihisa Hirata

ARCHITECT
Akihisa Hirata

PHOTOGRAPHS
Toshiyuki Yano

AREA
294.02 m2

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Kita, Japan

CATEGORY
Housing

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This is housing project in Tokyo. We would like to rethink the architecture not as the act to produce an area like a box, but as a folded surface created by the movement of the ground.

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Here, the balance of the pressure between the inside and the outside produces the bumped walls or roofs, which creates one big volume with subtle division. 

One can approach each house from exterior corridor, created by the dent of the volume.

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We can see the jostle between the inside and the outside in each rooms for example, the direct shape of roofs, diagonal protruding created by external stairs or distortion of the space by the folded walls.


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Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office
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Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office
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