tsumuji+hako | UID Architects

This is a two-family house for the couple and their parents. It is not a normal form to contain two families in one building but composed by the four boxes of two houses and each garages in the large site of about 500㎡.The tsumuji (the crossroad) composed of placement of these four boxes become the approach to the site and the line of flow to the terrace, and it is intended that a new connection of the community is created by the space like the alley. About part of houses, one-story and two-story house are about 100㎡.It is the form that the parents’ one-story house (type A) has the double structure that established the hollow atmospheric layer in the garret, and considered the thermal environment of the interior space. On the other hand, the two-story house (type B) has one-room living space through a large rectangular void in upper part of it.At the tsumuji (the crossroad), the scenery which community spreads by meeting and talking is the daily scenery of the town at the crossroad where this site located in. This project is the suggestion to live while opening for a city and keeping a sense of distance of each other's private lives by the two-family house of the separate type.