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Veterinarian N House by Eureka and Atelier Chocolate
Japanese architects Eureka and Atelier Chocolate have completed a vet’s surgery and apartment behind a metal mesh cage in Kanagawa.
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The two-storey Veterinarian N House has a square-shaped plan and is angled away from the metal screen to create four triangular courtyards in the gaps between.
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One of these courtyards accommodates the entrance to the ground-floor clinic, while the second is the entrance to the apartment above and the other two provide a service area and animal garden.
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Oriented strand board lines the interior walls of the building, which has a timber-framed structure.
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In the apartment upstairs, a living room, bedroom, guest room and balcony surround a cluster of utilities rooms that include a kitchen.
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This is the first animal hospital we've ever featured on Dezeen, but you can see more stories about animals here, including chicken homes, bird cages and fish bowls.
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Photography is by Ookura Hideki.
Here's a little more text from Eureka:
Veterinarian N House
Designed by Eureka + atelier CHOCOLATE
A two story building of an animal hospital and the veterinarian's house.
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We created several gardens around the building - garden for animals, backyard, garden for the dweller.
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Since those gardens are narrow, we rotated the building and created trapezoidal gardens so that those gardens could be wider space.
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The top/bottom edge of the metal screen at the site border changes in response to the surroundings and trims the view toward the outside of the site.
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Ground floor plan
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First floor plan