Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Shioya Tarumi-ku Kobe, Hyogo-Pref., Japan Consultants: Masashi Ooji, Design-Structure Laboratory Project year: 2005 Site Area: 130 sqm Constructed Area: 65.7 sqm Photographs: Shuhei Endo

A small residence for a couple, clinging onto a steep inclination that faces Setonaikai(Inland Sea) and bordered by a Y-intersection at the base of a hill, in a relatively old residential zone developed in tiered platforms. Site has an elongated triangular form, 20m long east-west and 1.5m to 4.0m deep. A retaining wall of wedge shaped stones standing in the back, facing north. Height is difference between the ground and the northern approach range from 5m to 8m.

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I hope that isn’t the Bullet Train track a few feet from the entrance.


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