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This home office was built in an old Victorian in Alameda for a couple, each with his own workstation. A hidden bookcase-door was designed as a "secret" entrance to an adjacent room. The office contained several printer cabinets, media cabinets, drawers for an extensive CD/DVD collection and room for copious files. The clients wanted to display their arts and crafts pottery collection and a lit space was provided on the upper shelves for this purpose. Every surface of the room was customized, including the ceiling and window casings.


The home-office includes a built-in flat wall monitor to use for long distance conferences and a computer area seen at the right edge of the photo. Both the center table and the computer desk can be hydraulically lowered into the rectangular recess (horikotatsu) in the floor beneath them. When the table and desk are raised, these recesses provide leg room when sitting on the floor.


CLIENT // M
PROJECT TYPE // CONSTRUCTION
LOCATION // HATSUDAI, SHIBUYA-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN
FACILITY // RESIDENCE
GROSS CONSTRUCTION AREA // 71sqm
CONSTRUCTION AREA // 25sqm
RANK // 2 STORY
STRUCTURE // TIMBER FRAME STRUCTURE
PROJECT TEAM // TOMOKO SASAKI
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER // Tetsuya Tanaka Structural Engineers
CONSTRUCTOR // FUJI SOLAR HOUSE
YEAR // 2019
PHOTOGRAPHS // akihideMISHIMA


By day, a sophisticated home office with handcrafted cabinetry, desk and shelving. By night, a guest room with sleeping quarters hidden in plain sight.


Beginning with the owner’s stated preference for a home with abundant natural light, the name of this project was adapted from that of a famous Beijing garden.