Ebina Art Freeway House and Atelier / GROUP + Yui Kiyohara + Arata Mino

”Designing traces of daily life”-  The building we were commissioned to design and renovate was a row-house-style housing complex of seven buildings built by a house builder at the beginning of the 1990s. When we visited the site, we noticed that traces of daily life were left in the seemingly homogeneous space of the row houses. For example, a BBQ set left in the yard, a stain on the wall, or a memorandum of the garbage dump. It is not only the form of the building at the time of its completion but also the fact that the sense of place changes according to the traces of life left behind by the stories of the people who live there. Normally, architecture cannot deal with the traces created by the lives of the residents after the completion of construction. However, by focusing on this change, we began designing the building with the idea of creating a new relationship between the architectural form and the lives that will be lived there.