Taishi Ogawa (ogawaa design studio LLC.)
Mariko Sakurama

This project involved the renovation of a nearly 50-year-old house into a house with a storefront, utilizing the foundation, steel frame, and exterior walls on the east and west sides. Originally a five-story building, the house was partially made into a three-story building with a two-story atrium in order to eliminate the narrowness of the building and to comply with legal regulations. The residential space is a seamless space with gradational changes in spatial characteristics, while bringing the chaotic atmosphere of the town, with its mixture of old and new, into the house. We aimed to realize an architecture that’s presents publicness fostering a ordinary but rich cityscape through spaces that are irreplaceable for its residents, loosely connected to the town.