House Week (At Last)
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I didn’t forget about House Week. The weather got bad after my initial post and then my camera died. My camera came back to life but the weather didn’t and the shots I was getting were as drab as the sky.
But enough’s enough. Let’s make do with what we have.
We need to start with a look at the space where the old house that started all this used to be –
When the house got torn down the neighbours on the right (there’s a parking lot on the left) had to put up a fence. It looks like bamboo, but it’s not: it’s plastic which, I guess, is sort of apt.
Anyway, we begin with an absence but tomorrow I’ll start posting what shots I’ve been able to get in the uncooperative light that’s been seeping through the sodden skies here recently. This is not going to be an architectural study of traditional building techniques, mind you, so don’t get too excited. The aim is to provide a look at a fairly typical suburban Japanese neighbourhood which I hope you’ll find interesting all the same.
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Posted to Architecture • 2002.10.27 (Sun) • 23:33
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Posted by resonance 2002.10.28, 16:30
I’m glad to see this project of yours see some light, as it were, on your website.
Never having been to Japan, I can only go by second-hand accounts; These houses look absolutely huge for what I’ve heard is available or affordable in any area of Japan that could even remotely be considered suburban. Either I’m missing a sense of scale or I’m conflating what I’ve heard about urban Japan with what I’ve heard about suburban Japan.
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