"In a dense residential pocket of Tokyo's Setagaya ward, naf architect & design completes Wall Ajar House, a two-story wooden dwelling defined by a carefully cut perimeter wall and a horseshoe-shaped courtyard. Designed by Akio Nakasa and Takumi Hara, the 108-square-meter residence occupies its 115-square-meter site almost entirely at ground level, securing a 17-meter uninterrupted visual axis from garage to washroom while filtering light through calibrated openings."
"On first visiting the site, Akio Nakasa was struck by the greenery to the left and rear, visible from the street instead of the typical boundary walls. The architects wrap the plot in a continuous wall that is slightly opened on one side, as if peeling back packaging. That small incision becomes the facade and the primary gesture of connection."
Wall Ajar House sits on a 115-square-meter site in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward and provides 108 square meters of two-story wooden living. A continuous perimeter wall is slightly opened on one side to form the facade and primary connection to adjacent greenery. A horseshoe-shaped courtyard and matching roof and floor geometry frame sky and trees while permitting shifting daylight to enter. A 17-meter unobstructed sightline runs from the street garage through the courtyard across the living-dining-kitchen to the washroom. Interior finishes use pale gray on the ground floor and darker gray upstairs, with rounded, deeper-gray private rooms to modulate privacy.
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