Day 42 - 60-minute challenge

House T -1 / Suppose Design Office

➨ Function: Office

➨ Location: Tokyo, Japan

➨ Area: 285 m2

Hello knowledge seekers,

hope you're enjoying your journey.

Today I woke up feeling good, and from today until exam day I'm not going to leave my desk, no more risk this day. As I'm very busy this week and as I already lost two days being sick, I needed to take this challenge out of my mind for a while, or at least until after the exams. Therefore, I decided for a week to challenge myself in reading, analyzing, and representing the project in one hour.

Let's start this challenge

Ughhh, this is hard, I've got only 20 minutes to write down what I've learned in the last 40 minutes, I'll admit, you can't put a timer on research, It takes away the magic.

Today's project takes place in Tokyo, In Archdaily, they described the project in only two lines. you know why? Unfortunately, the architecture market is only interested in the final product. There is why generally, In Archdaily we only see architects talking about details, material, and layouts. Nobody is interested in the process.

On the architect's site, they talked about the journey of finding reasonably priced land in Tokyo, In addition, they talked about the relation between architecture and the economy.

They also talked about how to build memories of the past in today's language. As today's project is a modern explanation of the Machiya traditional townhouse.

I want to try reading this project after getting familiar with the typology of Machiya's houses. So I'll continue tomorrow.

Take care.

References:

Archdaily

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