This is a situation of owning a house with the attributes of being in the "center of downtown", "a renovation of an old house" and "a connected town house". This is opposed to the more common houses in Japan, which is usually, "rural", "newly built" and "detached".
Toyosaki is a town located in a 15 minute walking distance from Umeda station, a main hub of transportation in North Osaka. It is also a 10 minute walking distance to the nearest subway station and is therefore, very convenient. In the area, there is a main street but also back streets where these older connected town houses exists.
The owner bought an old house and there is not much information about when or who built the house. The only thing we could find was that the house was renovated in the same year as when the Olympics was held in Tokyo: 1964.
设计开发在内墙拆毁后进行，以评估现存结构/MEP（机械、电气、管道）的情况。住宅架构被加固以符合最新规范要求。隔热材料也被替换，使其具有与新住宅相同的质量，符合日本4级能源节约表现评价项目的要求。涂饰和布局由积极测量确定。
Design development took place after the demolition of the interior walls in order to access the condition of the existing structures/MEP. The structure was enhanced to meet the latest code requirements. Also, the insulation was replaced to achieve equivalent quality of new houses as to meet the 4th grade energy saving performance evaluation program requirements in Japan.The finishes and layout were determined with a positive measurement.
业主个人物品的储存通过许多方式基本得以实现，展示了其生活及爱好。
项目的主要目的是建造一栋主体结构历史悠久的小型联排别墅，作为一对新婚夫妇温馨的生活空间。
The key intention of the project is to softly surround a new couple's life with a small connected town house that has a main structure with a long history.
在打通空间时，住宅拆除时留下的旧门和地板通过改变功能和位置，得到了再利用。
In opening up and connecting the space, the old doors and flooring, kept when the house was demolished, were reused by changing the functions and locations of them.
考虑到整个住宅的大小，入口处的楼梯那直达屋顶的开放式高空间堪称奢侈。
这么做可以使墙壁/门的建筑费用最小化。此外还连接了楼层，在有限的总空间内实现了空间的优化利用。
The entrance has a luxury space considering the total size of the house, as the ceiling of the staircase is an open design.
These were achieved to minimizing the wall/door construction cost. In addition, this achieved in optimizing the space utilization by connecting the floors as the total overall space is limited.
洗手间和浴室是唯一装有门的空间。其他空间由窗帘和缓隔开，这样就可以人为选择让这些区域开放或封闭。
The toilet and the bathroom were the only spaces where doors were installed. The other spaces are softly divided by curtains in order to leave the option of having these areas either open or closed.
via：gooood.hk
