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