DESIGNATEDCW » Arbeiten http://www.c-designated-w.com Design worx Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:56:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 HARD GRAFTING THE HILLS http://www.c-designated-w.com/?p=359 http://www.c-designated-w.com/?p=359#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:31:16 +0000 http://www.c-designated-w.com/?p=359 The place, was such a romantic corner. It was stunning. At a time when I hadn’t realized that romantic in Europe and romantic in Japan is a very different thing… not even that there was no road to the house changed my mind. It was (european) romantic.

And so I started. The need of renovation was undeniable. This wasn‘t a house you could live in while working on it. So I started commuting every day Yokusuka Yokohama, back and forth back and forth.

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The concept was clear from the very beginning. We wanted to rent out the house. The size of almost 60 sqm. and the average apartment size in Tokyo implied a cut thru the house and making 2 out of 1. It became a vertical cut and the apartments became so called “maison” type.

This was the first time that I stripped a house by my own. The walls like tin cans made it possible.

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The job itself was the right thing to calm down after 15 years in AD agencies.

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And this happened as well: Studiing the object and planning. The outcome:

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