© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

This is a project of one family living in two houses built slightly apart from one another. One great volume of a house which covers the entire plot was supposed first. Then this volume was carved in a curve in three segments and two volumes at the both ends were built as two houses on the site.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

  The wood structures and finishing materials of two houses are standardized to emphasis the relations of two volumes being originally from “one great volume” and that they are one though apart. Carved volume in the middle became a courtyard leading to the approach to two houses.  

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

Having another house for movies at night, overnight guests or work at home allows the inhabitants the liberty to do what they please at a time they want.  This distance between two houses may be just right for inviting grandparents to move in someday or providing privacy to children at puberty.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

  The purpose of building two houses slightly apart is not the same as that of having a villa at a resort or a farm household having a main building and a barn.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

  This project is an experiment for allowing more life style options in the life based in the urban area.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© naf architect & design . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© naf architect & design . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© naf architect & design . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.

© naf architect & design . Pubblicata il 19 Marzo 2010.