BALCONY HOUSE
Takeshi Hosaka Architects
MANUFACTURERS
Lixil Corporation, MIHAMA TSUSHO, Maxray, SK Kaken, Tokyo Gus
LOCATION
Taitō, Japan
YEAR
2016
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by the architects.
A house built in the downtown of Tokyo. A couple and a child live. When I looked at the neighborhood, the window with low fence and the balcony were in every house, it was also a place and tool for communication with the town.
So I set up windows on the 4 sides, and put large and small balconies on the indoor side of the window to make it a place of life. There is a balcony in the window outside and inside the house.Living in a moderate sense of distance between the balconies.
Main bed balcony (A couple's bed space. There is storage of clothes.)
Child's balcony (Child's space.)
Guest balcony (When wife's parents come from Osaka, they sleep in the futon here.)
Dressing balcony (Wife 's make - up space.)
Mini balcony (A small space with low ceiling height like loft.It is the highest position, children and girls gather and play.It is also an exit to the roof terrace.)
Hammock balcony (They can sit on the Hammock.Reading book,sleeping,)
Cloth dry balcony (Hang out the laundry. Because the south side, the laundry will dry well.)
The balcony at the window side has a feeling like outside though it is inside the house. The feeling of the window side spreads throughout the house.
