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House in Hiyoshi by Camp Design Inc.
Glass screens slide back and forth across a timber grid that divides this apartment in Japan.
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Tokyo architect Yusuke Fujita of Camp Design Inc. removed a number of original walls from the apartment as part of the refurbishment.
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Textured glass panels obscure the view through the timber frame where it fronts a bathroom, whilst clear glazing infills the frame elsewhere.
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In the kitchen, a sink and oven are contained behind a central timber partition.
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Camp Design Inc. refurbished another apartment this year, which looked like the builders hadn't quite finished - see that project here.
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Photography is by HATTA.
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Here's a little more information from Fujita:
House in Hiyoshi
It is a renovation project of the apartment for young husband and wife.
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By the wooden glass sliding door, it considered giving various deployment indoors. Glass has an effect like the screen to which it not only lets a look pass, but it changes delicately how whose room over there is visible.
Moreover, glass can say it also as the material which makes distance.
In the small scale of a residence, it is effective as a material which produces moderate depth. And a multistory boundary can be made by combining with the sliding door which has a function of the two poles of opening and closing.
The distance of rooms and the difference in textures, or it builds an interactive life space. It is a trial which extends the possibility of the wooden glass sliding door.