The 79.42 square meters house had to be divided into smaller rooms. The architect’s design started with a desire to discover overcrowded spatiality: he took a grid and played with voids solutions. In order to create a “high-density scenery”, where plenty of spaces can be seen all at once, he set the formula “spatial density = number of rooms / volume”, stating that “if you can see many rooms in a smaller space, the space density will rise”.
Ana House, Tokyo, Japan
Program: single family house
Architect: Kazuyasu Kochi, Kochi Architect’s Studio
Structural engineering: Yukihiro Kato, MI+D
Contractor: Siguma Construction Co., Ltd.
Site area: 91.31 sqm
Built area: 45.52 sqm
Floor area: 79.42 sqm
Completion: 2016