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  Project Title

  Tachikawa ANNEX

• 
  Winning Firm
  
  

  MDS

• 
  Lead Designer
  
  

  Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura

• 
  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Residential Low-rise

• Project Location
  Tachikawa, Japan
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  August, 2021
• Client
  Individual
• General Contractor
  Eiko Construction
• Photographer credit
  Koji Fujii / Toreal


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  MDS
• Lead Architect(s)
  Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura
• Other Team Members
  Ryotaro Sakata
• About Firm
  MDS was founded by Kiyotoshi Mori and Natsuko Kawamura 2002 in Tokyo. We aim to create architecture that people will continue to love as time passes. Rather than pursue designs that look new on the surface or are full of unnecessary features, we feel it's most important to design comfortable spaces and attractive forms.

Details between House and Warehouse
In contrast to the RC main house, the building is an annex designed as a light wooden building. The ground floor is used for a warehouse, while the upper floor is a second house of the owner. The exposed timber frame structure is composed of the lower structure with two-story posts, and the roof structure with timber struts which shift in angles and form HP surfaces. This annex, surrounded by the main building and other detached houses, aims at presenting a new and unclassified townscape in the way it’s used, the scale, and how it emerges as architecture.