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Designed by Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, this house of floating concrete planes and glass walls contrives an ascetic domesticity tempered only by nature.

Garden & House by SANAA Technical Information

The entirety is a wall-less transparent building designed to provide an environment with maximum sunlight despite the dark site conditions.

– Ryue Nishizawa

Garden & House Photographs

Text by the Ryue Nishizawa

In a highly dense district packed with high-rise condominiums and office buildings, this building is the new home to two women in the editorial business who wish to work and live in this historical environment. They specifically request to include an office, common living space, private room for each, a guest room, and a bathroom. I got the impression that it involved a program somewhere between an office and a residence, or a dormitory.

The site is a tiny rectangle of 8 Kazuyo sejima ryue nishizawa sanaa.