#jutaku

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Jutaku House,  Shimada, Japan,

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Akira Nakamura Photographs

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Motoki Ishikawa Architect & Associates. House in Minamiogikubo - 南荻窪の家. Suginami-ku, Tokyo. Japan. photos: Motoki Ishikawa Architect & Associates

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Average Japanese House - Inside the Home of a Typical Tokyo Family. video: youtube: Paolo fromTOKYO

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Tokyo's impermanent skinny house made to age well with owners by -video: Kirsten Dirksen/ youtube 

Inheritance taxes on land in Japan means plots often get smaller as they are passed on. This “divide and sell” phenomenon in Tokyo translates into some very tiny home sites. When architects Masahiro and Mao Harada were tasked with creating a home on a lot only 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide at its narrowest point, they chose to interpret small as “near” and use the small scale to their advantage...    

---> Mount Fuji Architects : http://fuji-studio.jp

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Takeshi Hirobe Architects. Villa SSK. Chiba. Japan. photos: Koichi Torimura

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Airhouse- Keiichi Kiriyama. 大垣の家. House in Ogaki. Japan. photos: Toshiyuki Yano

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TOKYO SERIES: JIDOHANBAIKI, METRO, & JUTAKU

JIDOHANBAIKI - Vending machines and guest designers METRO - Heavy economic train simulation JUTAKU - Real time dexterity for 1-8

Are you into board games and Japan / Japanese culture ? If, so these games from Jordan Draper // Dark Flight Games  are your thing. You can back them up on kickstarter, but hey...only 3 days left, guys. 

TOKYO JUTAKU is a larger version of the previously sold out game Jutaku, where 1-8 players will take on the role of Japanese architects designing small, abstract home models on strangely shaped plots of land....

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comma design office. Tentoshi. Minato-ku. Tokyo. Japan. photos: Jeremi Stella