House Around the Corner in Kugahara / some ( ) + Tezzo Nishizawa Architects
A house on a corner lot in Ota, Tokyo. The site was subdivided from a family estate, placing the new home at its south-western corner. Against the Tokyo convention of turning a blank wall to the neighbors, the design opens a garden toward the adjacent properties — bringing light and air into the block's interior. The angle between the interior grid and the facade generates a series of triangular intermediate zones that carry sightlines obliquely from one street to the next. Two equivalent gabled facades address both streets without hierarchy.
A house on a corner lot in Ota, Tokyo. The site was subdivided from a family estate, placing the new home at its south-western corner. Against the Tokyo convention of turning a blank wall to the neighbors, the design opens a garden toward the adjacent properties — bringing light and air into the block's interior. The angle between the interior grid and the facade generates a series of triangular intermediate zones that carry sightlines obliquely from one street to the next. Two equivalent gabled facades address both streets without hierarchy.
