We will begin this series of architectural travels in the suburbs of Tokyo, with a compact house combining tradition and modernity.This asian style mini-pavilion has a floor area of approximately 32 sq/m ; built on a 223 sq/m plot, it is decorated with a Japanese garden.
Its frontage includes an entrance gate with a large automatic sliding door : it gives access to a parking area for 2 cars.The graphic design of the storefront is a superposition of horizontal lines reminiscent of blackout blinds playing with light ; the small rectilinear side frames in
raw green autoclave pine are inspired from asian porticoes ;
Acontrast of colors is reinforced by the whiteness of the stone and the reddish depth of australian jarrah wood used for the horizontal bars, the gate and the
sliding door ; the parking area has a clear gravel coating whose furrows can remind Zen garden.
