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Habitus/Lifestyle Northwest Facade view from the street

Context/Resources

„Moriyama House“ in Tokyo

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Data

Location: Tokyo, Itabashi-ku, 35° 34‘ 03.67‘‘ N 139° 42‘ 34.80‘‘ E

Architect: Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA
Year: 2005
Client: Mr. Moriyama and renters
Size: 263m2

Construction
Space
Habitus
Resources

Quellen:
Japan Architect, 2007 Summer, n.64, p.58-59

Situation MST: 1:500

Third-loor 1:50

Material/Construction
Prefabricated metallic boxes
Ground-loor 1:50

inside surface_private 263 sqm (on 1 to 3 loors)

Space/Organisation

10
thin sheets of white outside surface_public 133 sqm Exterior view by night
painted steel assembled 0 1 2 3 4 5 10
together to form boxes

the metallic wall is only 6cm thick = no loose of ground surface

White volumes just after completion city in the city the space is used
density very carefully
Ryue Nishizawa‘s conceptual sketches
freedom to place big windows with this material

steel frame,
pilotis, low cost
materials

Entrance windows communicates from one box to the other

rooms are not stacked but dispatched to creates depending of the level of privacy of the room
diferent kind of exterior spaces
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concrete founations:the only
heavy piece of the building volumes fonctions and situations give a maximal lexibility to the owner to split appartments as he wants