CELL PARTITION-House

In Tokyo, housing space is extremely limited due to overpopulation. Thus, people tend to measure the quality of a house by its size-the number of rooms being an important factor, especially for large families.

To fulfill this demand, this project has focused on maximizing the number of rooms in the house, with each room designed in its own colorful, unique way.

First, we divided the rectangular housing lot into nine sections using cell partitions.

The sections are approximately 10m², with a maximum of two floors inserted in each of the sections to maximize the number of rooms in the house. By adding large, high windows in each room, we also focused on bringing each room closer to nature, minimizing the divide between the indoors and the environment outside as much as possible and providing a unique, outdoor atmosphere as well.

Next, we added chipped parts in all of the cell partitions as a connecting device, allowing the owner to move the cell partition walls and add their own changes to the layout of the house. Thus, this house is a work of synergy between the architect and the homeowner, continuing to change and evolve by the hands of the inhabitant.

Furthermore, by making the space between the chipped parts smaller as it goes up the cell partitions, we have created loft-like rooms in the upper area  of the house. Smaller, and having less window-space than the rest of the house, these rooms up above provide a private space for the homeowner-somewhat like a private habitat for a small animal in a forest.