Slice Of The City, Nishinomiya-Japan

via ignant.de | Photos © Toshiyuki Yano

Located in a residential neighbourhood of Nishinomiya, Japan, the house designed by Alphaville Architects seeks for a solution to provide enough of the daylight while not affecting the privacy of its owners at the same time.

Given the area’s typical block layout and Nishinomiya’s strict local construction laws, there needs to be a fifty centimetre-wide buffer between the site boundary which allows one-meter narrow gap between the houses. Therefore, usually each house’s windows face the public roads with the curtains shut to keep its privacy.
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