This six-apartment building is placed in Tokyo. The design is the result of a competition.
The building is strongly additive: It begins from the inside with a strict, minimalist formal response to the site, executed in a rich material palette. (Each apartment has a distinct personality, informing the materiality for its very different spaces.) The structure then expands outward as needed to accommodate spatial requirements and to ‘grow’ around the existing trees on the site. Considering environmental sensitivity as a design parameter, this response is a sort of contemporary form-follows-function.
