TETOTE NOTE
TETOTE NOTE
Yoshihiro Kato Atelier
ARCHITECTS
Yoshihiro Kato Atelier
AREA
74 m²
MANUFACTURERS
Panasonic, Nihon Degy, Pialex Technologies
PHOTOGRAPHS
Nacasa & Partners Inc.
LOCATION
NAKAMURA-KU, JAPAN
YEAR
2012
CATEGORY
Office Buildings
Text description provided by architect.
The square and pure white building located on a 100 square meter site is called TETOTE NOTE.
TETOTE means handshake in Japanese, and it signifies the collaboration among the designers, the clients, and those involved in creating.
The first to fifth floors are used as an in-house studio, and the simple arrangement of oblong circular windows in the flat outer surface is impressive.
These windows have two ways of opening—vertically and horizontally.
Attached just at the surface of the outer wall, these windows give the impression of flatness viewed from the outside, while the thickness of the walls further emphasizes the oblong shape, capturing more random and active shadow and light.
In this way the structure has the impression of duality, with a rougher interior, and it represents a stronger relationship through space and minimal detail, without incorporating a great deal of design information.
