Kota Mizuishi is a Japanese architect and the designer of the River Side House, close to the Horinouchi River, in Tokyo. It is a house with all the amenities of a “regular” house but with the main difference of been built in a 52 sq. triangular plot. The property is delimited by the river and a road so the architecture studio has been forced to develop this original project in order to make the most of this little piece of land.
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The lack of land in the Japanese cities is the reason of this kind of extreme architecture and Mizuishi has known how to do it properly. He has built a home where others would maybe place nothing but a wall.
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The house, where there is living a family of three, has two levels and the second floor is wider than the first one where there are a bathroom and a double room.
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On the second level there is the communal area, with the kitchen, the dining-living room and a loft. Besides, there is an attic, used as a children playroom with access by a ladder. And, of course, there is also a space for a car!
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© hiroshi tanigawa
© hiroshi tanigawa
The most important thing of this property is its brightness. The lateral walls are sliding windows with access to a balcony.
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Definitely, there is nothing lacking in this big little house!
