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- Architects: KamakuraStudio
- Location: Katsushika-ku, Japan
- Architect In Charge: Keisuke Fukui, KeisukeMorikawa
- Area: 95.61 m2
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: Nacasa & Partners
- Other Participants : Katsuyuki Ando(DAIKO ELECTRIC CO.,LTD.
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Text description provided by the architects. The house before rebuilding had stayed in the shadow because the location that had been surrounded by many buildings had been bad.
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That’s why the room hadn’t got much sunlight, and the potted plants that had been outside had been losing their energy in the dimly-lit place.
So we started designing the best places for plants with the owner who loves plants.
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First of all, we set up the garden on the second floor of the north side which has been the best place of getting a lot of sun and hasn’t backlit. And then we put some plants in it.
Secondly, we tilted the ceiling that we coated the surface of with reflective material.
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By doing so, we have projected the shape of the plants that can not be seen from the first floor as a virtual image on the ceiling.
1st Floor Plan
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2nd Floor Plan
On the second floor, there has been the space that is full of greenery and it’s as if we were absorbed in looking into a kaleidoscope of plants.
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We expect that the space which the plants and architecture create has people who adapt to diverse changes like day-to-day moment by moment feel pleasure.