APOLLO / Satoshi Kurosaki

The site is located in a riverside town along the Tokyo metropolitan border. The owner, who is in his 40s, purchased a new lot in a "flag-shaped lot" with a site at the end of a long, narrow passageway, which is a unique site shape in Tokyo. A site that does not face a road tends to give a somewhat negative impression, but I do not think so. Rather, I believe that this passageway will be utilized as an important buffer zone between the street and the houses, and will become a passageway that connects the public and the private. In addition, a green landscape overlooking the back of the site can be brought into the interior as a borrowed landscape. In addition, the layout and openings have been carefully planned with careful attention to the clever incorporation of the surrounding landscape and the passage of the wind.

The master bedroom, guest room, and body room are located on the first floor, while the family space is on the sunny second floor. A gradual step between the dining and living rooms was created not only to serve as a change to the simple one-room space, but also to express the atmosphere of the area around the elevated site in the interior space. The dining room and kitchen, with their low ceilings, have a series of horizontal windows that look down to the passageway and to the rear of the site. On the other hand, the living room facing the high sloping ceiling is a generous space that is connected to the children's room, study room, and roof balcony on the third floor through the atrium. Dynamic light pours in from the top and high sidelights, creating shadows on the walls and allowing the residents to enjoy their own private view of the sky. Like the personality of the owner, the "straightforwardness" of the building, which does not go against the power of the environment, is what we wanted to express in this architecture.