1101房间丨日本大阪丨FORM,Kouichi Kimura Architects

Architects:FORM / Kouichi Kimura Architects

Area:78m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Norihito Yamauchi

Lead Architects:Kouichi Kimura

Category:Renovation,Apartment Interiors

Design Team:Tomoaki Kimura

Engineering & Consulting > Other:River

City:Osaka

Country:Japan

Text description provided by the architects. The purpose of the renovation is to revive an urban apartment into a space as a second house. Responding to the client's request of 'living an extraordinary life in a versatile space', I put focus on the design of the opening in the beginning.

The apartment unit is located on the 11th floor, which is the uppermost floor of the building. The room with the distinctive 5-meter-high atrium has randomly arranged various shapes of large windows. To control natural light that intricately streams through the windows, walls, and frosted glass screens are installed, adding a new light-and-shadow visual experience to the room.

The screens, which are positioned 40 cm off the wall, have made the existence of the windows vague, receiving the light to make themselves the 'wall of light'. At night, the gentle diffused light from the indirect lighting adds a wealth of colors to the space. In addition, the mirrors, which are applied to the hanging walls that divide the screens, reflect the series of frames, creating visual expansion and depth in the space.

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