{"id":6348,"date":"2010-02-23T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2010-02-23T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:06:30","slug":"house-on-a-flag-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2010\/02\/house-on-a-flag-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"House on a Flag Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao1.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Flag lot divisions are quite common in a densely populated city in Japan<!--more-->, and building a house on an odd-shaped parcel happens all the time. To build a house in Tokyo for instance, a property must adjoin a road for at least 2 meters (79 inches), and the road must be at least 4 meters (13 feet) wide. The problem is that many of Tokyo\u2019s streets are narrower than 4 meters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it seems there has been no problem with the shape\/size of the land and the required road width when building this house. The house fits onto the lot quite nicely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao2.jpg?w=500\"  \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao3.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao4.jpg?w=500\"  \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao5.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao6.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao7.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao8.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hatasao9.jpg?w=500\"  \/><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"photos\" class=\"floatright\">via <b>+\u30fbatelier<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span>&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<sup>Who:<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.odn.ne.jp\/tasten\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Tomoki Abe<\/b><\/a> \/ +\u30fbatelier (TasTen)<br \/>\n<sup>What:<\/sup> Single family residence<br \/>\n<sup>Where:<\/sup> Kanagawa Prefecture<br \/>\n<sup>When:<\/sup> 2007<br \/>\n<sup>How:<\/sup> Two-story wood frame construction<br \/>\n<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flag lot divisions are quite common in a densely populated city in Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-japan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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