House in Futamatagawa - Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect and Associates

The house is located in Yokohama's old residential district, the point of departure of the project was, designing a house in an empty space of a great residence. The one that served as home to the family for years on end, but as it is natural; The children to grow and to develop needed their own space.

While parents continue to live at the bigger house, that you count on a great Japanese garden, with the characteristics that you grant him his millenarian tradition. On the premises, it was had to calculate and to consider all existent the conditions of the parent company, in order to visualize the new house; Without taking away his prominence neither being out of tune in the architectonic aspect.

Of a structure of reinforced concrete, all walls have a finishing of cement caravista so much in the inside and exterior. A noble and unalterable material, that he confers an architectonic only, appreciable- beauty personality to the walls of the buildings and residences, is very resistant to the passage of time and of very low maintenance, which in turn has properties of thermic and acoustic isolation.

Distributed in three levels, an obvious disposition is noticed to the clearances combining them with a linear furniture and minimalista, like in being in TV or the study. In the last level there is a great terrace delimited with a deck of crystal, what increases the sensation of space amplitude. This terrace floats on the front of the house, standing out of the same body of her, remaining apparently plenty of close to the main house.