Tokyo
kap | KOMADA ARCHITECTS’ OFFICE
kap is a rental housing of three families located in an area of Tokyo crowded with small houses and apartments. We make the slabs between concrete walls fragmented and make holes on the walls to connect the spaces adjoin each...
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