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Cube House by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Japanese architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates have completed this house in Kanagawa, Japan, which features a double-height central living area connecting all the rooms.
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Called Cube House, the project features a glazed roof that allows natural light into the atrium.
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Photographs are by Satoshi Shigeta.
Here's more information from Shinichi Ogawa & Associates:
The house is built on a 1.5M grid module in all XYZ directions.
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This site is at a corner of the new residential area in Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.
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The space is composed of a solid cube of 9.0M x 9.0M x 6.0M and a cubic void of 4.5M x 4.5M x 6.0M.
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The hall, children's room, kitchen are laid out to surround the living-dining room on the ground floor.
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On the first floor, the bedroom, walk-in closet, bathroom, courtyard, are laid out to surround the double floor-height well which is 6.0M.
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Each room of the interior space is connected through the void of the living room.
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And the void cuts off the sky as a geometric form, letting the sunlight inside.
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In this house, all events, the changes of the seasons, course of time, and human activity, are created through the void.
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