2011
2010
suppose design office: house in kodaira
The building is half covered with tarpaulin to blur the barrier between indoors and outdoors.
bare soil is left in the living room space, to allow the owners to plant grass in the future.
// A tarpaulin or tarp is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with urethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene.
2009
2008
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
"This 120-year-old “minka” (a Japanese private house) in Shiga Prefecture not far from Kyoto was renovated inside in 2007. Architect Chikara Ono of Sinato in Tokyo has performed a brilliant facelift inside the old house by placing a huge white table with the size of 6 tatami mats (107 square feet) as a hub of the owner’s day to day life."
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