Introducing Condominium Renovation: Choose the Layout According to Mood | A Home That Changes Its Outfit, a custom-built home example by Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Associates, a Architect / Design office in 302, Zeniya Honpo Main Building, 14-6 Ishigatsujichō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka
A flexible residence that can be easily reconfigured, like changing outfits to suit the mood of the day.
Door units recessed into pockets on both sides.
The central room is fitted with sliding doors that can be fully opened.
The rear bedroom was formerly a Japanese-style tatami room. The built-in closet was painted, keeping the renovation minimal.
Door heights are aligned beneath the structural beams, with the upper sections left open to visually expand the limited space.
The pine flooring was finished by the client.
Retracting the doors into both directions transforms the space into an expansive open-plan living/dining/kitchen.
Lighting is arranged on a track to allow easy alteration of fixtures and their placement.
A bedroom suffused with light through polycarbonate panels.
View from the corridor toward the living room. Ceiling boards were removed to expose the concrete. Ceiling height is 2.6 m.
Entrance. Reclaimed existing dead space to create a cloakroom and a recessed niche.
Exposed fair-faced concrete walls that retain the craftsmen's chalk marks.
A simple washroom with a laminated ash timber counter.
Toggle switch installed using a junction box.
Capturing Light
Cafe Style
Industrial
Face-to-Face Kitchen
Renovation
Simple Life
Exposed Concrete
Circulation Flow
DIY
Apartment Renovation
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Keijiro Yamada
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In a typical 3LDK condominium, the plan often arranges two bedrooms along the corridor, an LDK facing the veranda, and a single room sandwiched between them. That intermediate room is commonly planned as a spare Japanese- or Western-style room, but its daylighting, ventilation and air-conditioning conditions are usually poor; in practice it often becomes a storage room for seasonal items or furniture that cannot be discarded, and fails to respond flexibly to changes in the occupants' lifestyle. In this project, the intermediate room is equipped with a sliding door that can be fully opened, enabling the space to function as an independent room, as part of a larger LDK, or as a softly defined partition when fixed in an intermediate position. The result is a flexible residence where the plan can be rearranged as easily as changing clothes, according to the mood of the day.
Location / Minami-ku, Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture Use / Multi-family housing Structure and scale / SRC construction — 14th floor of a 20-story building Floor area / 24 tsubo [approx. 80 m2] Design supervision / Yoshihiro Yamamoto & Kaori Mitsuhashi [yyaa] Contractor / Mitoma Construction Photography / Keijiro Yamada [YFT]
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