Tokyo Architect Couple’s Small Clever Apartment, 35sqm-376sqft

For me, a home is a place that gives me a sense of security. When I think about this house, it's a space with a lot of space. It's a space where I can just look at the scenery outside. It's a very relaxing space for me. I think a home is a place that gives me a sense of security. One of the big features of this house is that it has furniture-like boxes scattered around. Each box has a function that is necessary for living. For example, a bath, a toilet, and a washing machine. This building is located in Nakano Ward. It's a town near the Chokosu building in Shinjuku. It's a quiet residential area with low-rise and mid-rise houses lined up around it. There are junior high schools and kindergartens in the neighborhood. There is also an old town with shrines that are familiar to the area. I feel the 50-year history of the district until I enter this house. When you enter this house, you will see a wide-open view and a bright space. Many people are surprised. When we bought this house, the window was still in construction. There were two tatami mats and a small kitchen in the middle of the room. It was a very old impression. I felt that it didn't suit our lives because of the old Japanese way of life, such as sitting on the floor and eating rice or laying a futon to change the dining room into a bedroom. First, I removed all the walls other than the structure. In it, a box with a function for housing is placed in between. The space on the south side of the room is where the bed is placed, but by stacking the beds, it becomes a living space. There is a wardrobe on one side of it, and the small gap between the walls can be used as a working space. The space on the north side is the widest in this room and is a kitchen and dining room. There is a unit bus, a toilet, a washing machine, and a refrigerator in the place next to the dining room. There was a big step to take off the shoes at the original entrance, but here the floor is lowered and the entrance and dining room are separated by a stainless steel plate. This is a shoe rack made by Yamazaki, called Tower. The tree at the base of the shoe rack is made by ourselves, and we use it as a shoe rack. The entrance is a steel door, so we put a hook here and store the key. The color of the door is painted pink, but we painted it with the image of Doraemon in the Japanese anime, and we painted it pink with the image of being able to go on an adventure anywhere. When there was a big guest such as a deliveryman, we made sure that the inside of the room could not be seen by covering the entrance with thick curtains, and we could also prevent the outside noise from the old steel entrance door. This space on the south side is a bed space and a living space at the same time. The curtain rail is U-shaped and attached to the ceiling here, but if you close this sheer curtain, you can divide the room loosely. There is an air conditioner in this room, but if you close the curtain and turn on the air conditioner, the room gets warm and cold immediately, so it also serves as a curtain to increase the efficiency of the air conditioner, The sofa is a double-decker bed purchased from IKEA. When there are big guests or on holidays, we use it as a living room like this, but on weekdays, we lower this sofa and use it as a bed space for two people. This table is also movable, so you can easily remove this top plate and carry it, or you can fold the legs like this, take it, hang it, and store it. You can also change the top plate and make it a little darker. The window has a resin inner sash for insulation and insulation inside the original sash. The window frame itself is a simple shelf, and we also use it as a shelf to decorate our favorite things. This space can be softened by the curtain. By placing two curtains on the window and softening the light from the window, you can make the space more comfortable. The balcony is a place to sit and watch the outside when it is sunny in the calm season such as spring or autumn. In fact, this height is the height where the birds fly around, so you can see the birds well, so I observe the birds while drinking tea. I used to use this counter at work, but recently my wife plays the piano, I read books, and I use it during my break. When I first got this, there was nothing here, and I didn't have anything in particular, but we have a lot of books like this, so I decided to make a bookshelf here. This is a shelf pillar, and I asked the public office to put it in the wall. Other than that, I cut this shelf board, and I painted it. These are shelves that we made by ourselves. The closet is a place where we put things we wear every day, and we put things we use on a daily basis like this. The wardrobe is bright and soft. I chose a shina gohan with a bright impression. I put an unmarked storage shelf and store clothes easily. I lift it with my feet, and I make it like a furniture that doesn't reach the ceiling. Under this foot, I put an outlet, and by putting a Roomba station, it also functions as a hiding place for Roomba, and by lifting the furniture of the whole house with my feet, Roomba can be cleaned smoothly. Under the leg is for the Roomba's plan. Roomba's wall. It's freaky-deaky, and it's oh-so-fine. We have it all. How does design stir our feelings and drive our connections to places, to our precious histories, and to each other? Jack Chen and Heidi Wong of Tsai Design show us how to transform awkward spaces into elegant instruments for living. See what happens when Dutch artist-slash-designer Bertjan Potts' hands surprise his head. Learn how third-world grit and a hell-ton of plants can preserve the living culture of our cities. 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The dining kitchen is located on the north window. It's the centre of the room. If you put a big kitchen in a small house, it creates a sense of presence. So instead of a kitchen, we designed it to be a part of the interior, similar to other furniture. The silver sink and stove on the top of the kitchen are custom-made. We designed the door and the bottom of the shelf. We put a silver sheet on the door to create a sense of unity By unifying the whole colour, we create a furniture-like appearance. The range hood is the same colour as the wall, so it doesn't stand out as a machine. But she can't reach it, so we use the switch over there. There's a switch for hot water and a switch for the kitchen. When we cook or use the stove at night, we press the switch here to cook. In front of the sink, we put an acrylic board. The glass gets dirty when water splashes, so we just stick the board in so that it doesn't get dirty. We often cook together, so we thought this would be useful. We designed this trolley later. The rice cooker is in the trolley and we use it to cook rice. We move it around freely as a working space for the two of us. We can cook rice here and cut it here. We can also do the laundry here, so we often cook here. Here we have containers that we don't use often. We store bottles, bottles, and lunch boxes here. We're particular about the transparent caster. If it's black, the colour stands out, but we made it transparent so that it doesn't stand out. We also put a lock on it so that it doesn't move when there's an earthquake. The shelf between the windows was made by the two of us. It's a simple design where you put a shelf on the window frame. We put kitchen tools here, and we put this wooden stick that we bought at Ikea on the board. The cupboard next to the kitchen has a microwave and an oven. This box is a dining table. There's a microwave and a toaster inside. We store small mugs and glasses and tableware in the second row. In the back, we store a lot of plates This range is from a brand called Marmuda. It plays music like this. For the dining space, we designed a dining table You might think that the top of the table looks very thin, but we actually put the top of the table inside the steel legs. So only the outside of the table has this thickness. I think it's a very light design. I bought these chairs online, but you can get them cheaper than buying new ones, and they don't lose their value when you let them go. Kitchen dining has a lot of windows, so it's a very suitable environment I've always wanted to grow plants before I moved here, but now that I've grown them, I feel like I can live very relaxed. This plant is called Umberatta. I bought it when I first moved here, and it was about 1 meter tall at first, but it's grown twice as tall since I moved here. One of the windows in the dining kitchen has a more protruding window frame than usual, but here we have a window frame that can be used as a shelf or as a table. In a normal house, there are often refrigerators and washing machines on the front, but in a small house like this, there is a high possibility that such a presence will come out, so I stored it in a translucent box so that I could hide it as much as possible. This translucent box has a refrigerator and washing machine on the right, and a toilet on the left. In order to pass the light from the outside window to the washroom space, translucent material is used, and the light is absorbed into the washroom space. Before taking a bath, if you close it like this, it will be an easy escape space. The back of this is the toilet space. There is a small window in the toilet, so I used a polycarbonate material to pass the light through this box. This is the washroom. This is a recycled product, and it is a bar where you can hang towels and washing detergent bottles. There is a stand in the open space of the unit bus, so you can bring it here, open it, and enter. This bath looks like an order-made one, but the inside uses a general unit bus, which helps to reduce the cost. The wooden cement version has a water-absorbing and heat-absorbing property, and the gray color itself is the color of the material itself. I made sure that the outlets and switches of this house are not conspicuous. For the finish of the wall, I simply painted the original structure wall of the house, but I left the traces of the demolition and the old state. I am conscious of creating a place that feels bright and spacious even in a small space. I don't think it's narrow, but I think it's close to the outside. I think it was one of the discoveries that I wanted to make. I enjoyed it, and I was thinking about how to make it and how to live with it. Rather than a house that was completed from the beginning, I thought it would be nice if we could meet like this. I talked about it later, and we enjoyed making it together. That's what I was thinking.