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Photographs of the house depict the strong lighting and material contrasts within it. Its small widows allow light to peer in harshly, creating glare which can form strong moments throughout the architecture. Additiionally, these photos highlight the efficient use of space, and how the homogenous concrete is offset by small art installations.

The Suzuki House can be easily broken down into a series of distinct forms, each seemingly drawn from computers, televisions, or other digital age iconography.

The house shape is a product of its context: condensed Tokyo urbanism.

Design elements of the house allude to the cluster of digital information swarming Japan in the 1990s.

A dynamic form moves over the facade, “a house glanced by a passing ninja”. (AA School of Architecture 2015, 35:03. Spatial restrictions result in exciting, multipurpose innovations.

Spatial restrictions result in exciting, multipurpose innovations.

Spatial restrictions result in exciting, multipurpose A single set of cabinetry innovations. unites the house’s many small floors.

Flourishes of red integrate the car into the house, embracing design within contextual restrictions. A single set of cabinetry unites the house’s many small floors. A single set of cabinetry unites three of the house’s many floors.

Spatial divide, with focused moments of pause opposite condensed urban living.

Living area windows frame distinct views, and allow magical moments of flooding light.

Spatial restrictions result in exciting, multipurpose innovations.

Spatial restrictions result in exciting, multipurpose innovations.

A single set of cabinetry unites the house’s many small floors.

A single set of cabinetry unites the house’s many small floors. Spatial divide, with focused moments of pause opposite Spatial divide, with focused moments of pause condensed urban living. opposite condensed urban living.

Spatial divide, with focused moments of pause opposite condensed urban living.

Flourishes of red integrate the car into the house, embracing design within contextual restrictions.

Flourishes of red integrate the car into the house, embracing design within contextual restrictions.

Living area windows frame distinct views, and allow magical moments of flooding light.

Living area windows frame distinct views, and allow Living area windows frame distinct views, and allow Bolles+Wilson: ‘Suzuki House’magical moments of flooding light. magical moments of flooding light. Peter Pupovac | 20554257

Bolles+Wilson: ‘Suzuki House’ Peter Pupovac | 20554257

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