Showing posts with label Japanese houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese houses. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

House with Car Walls


















Japanese house protected from parking lot...Adjacent houses in U.S. cities used to have "party walls." This house needed car and traffic protection. 

Txt & pix via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/ambfktz

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The House with No Windows


Three-room, concrete Japanese house with no windows, but with two dramatic light wells on the roof. Entrance is a door at the side. Darkness, starkness, bareness can be cozy. House is a light-trap and the light moves and changes from hour to hour, from day to day, from month to month. A mattress on the floor is all I would need.

Interiors and text via dezeen.com>http://tinyurl.com/c53yuwq