Kitaurawa Valley

Naoya Kawabe architect & associates as Architects

This is 3-story the apartment of 14 houses. This apartment is in the residential street for several on foot minutes from a station. When leave a little around the station,residential of wide premises are lined up. Rich green can be felt between the yard or a building.


Circumference environment was guided by in the common area and it connected to dwelling unit environment. Common area was divided in five volumes, guided by circumference environment, a dwelling unit has a highly independent plan.


Guided to the skyward by capturing the open space of neighboring houses, to consider the relationship between the height of the house around. Passage and windows are located, while controlling the line of sight or relate to the external environment.


Has control of the relationship between the dwelling unit by attaching the angle to the wall facing. In such passages of the valley to pass through a wind. A common area as a rich place where environment and a life were combined.

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