SAZAE's house02. Sep2011
SAZAE's house is a private residence for a 7-member family in Japan. The clients are a young family which requested the house to accommodate all family members ranging from their young daughter to brother, sister, mother and grandmother as well.
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via Designboom
Upper floor view. 
Reading corner located at the upper floor. 
The resulting design seeks to create spatial connectivity inside the house by creating a central space acting as a common space where two distinct passages are intersecting. This area occupies a large portion of the house layout and develops on two levels height. This is the neutral space in which all family members can meet at one moment. 
View towards the living. 
View from the dining space.Private spaces such as dormitories were grouped on the perimeter and receive light through small internal windows which make connection with the central space abundantly illuminated by the sun through the generous translucent window pane.
"Rather than imposing our own designs unilaterally, we think of clients as equal partners in the process of discussing requests and problems, which are then resolved through design and planning. While the end product of this process is a physical structure, we think of our fundamental role as designing human-to-human and human-to-environment relationships. Our goal is to create architecture whose meaning and purpose is derived through ongoing communication with clients." - Akasaka Shinichiro design philosophy 
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