{"id":212,"date":"2026-07-06T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/?post_type=works&p=212"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:46:32","slug":"the-cloister-house","status":"publish","type":"works","link":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/works\/the-cloister-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloister House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Cloister House<\/h1>\n
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In 73\u33a1, the only requests were sleeping, storage, and wet areas. The margin of more-than-ample space for one person is turned, by design, into ease of living. A corridor that loops the long way around rather than taking the shortest path serves both as rational circulation and as a calming effect.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Data<\/h2>
Completed<\/dt>
2017<\/dd><\/dl>
Primary Use<\/dt>
Residence<\/dd><\/dl>
Project Type<\/dt>
Renovation<\/dd><\/dl>
Structure \/ Scale<\/dt>
Reinforced concrete, 4 stories above ground<\/dd><\/dl>
Total Floor Area<\/dt>
72.6\u33a1<\/dd><\/dl>
Architects<\/dt>
Takeshi Shikauchi<\/dd><\/dl>
Lighting Design<\/dt>
Sonobe Design Office<\/dd><\/dl>
Contractor<\/dt>
Yamauchi Komuten<\/dd><\/dl>
Photography<\/dt>
Kouichi Torimura \/ Kouichi Torimura Photography<\/dd><\/dl><\/div><\/div>

Media<\/h2>
Magazine<\/dt>
Kenchiku Chishiki, No.772, March 2019<\/dd><\/dl><\/div><\/div>

Award<\/h2>
SUVACO<\/dt>
SUVACO House of the Year 2021 (4th overall)<\/dd><\/dl><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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A Renovation That Turns Margin into Ease of Living<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For 73\u33a1 of space, the client\u2019s only requests were \u201ca place to sleep, storage, a bath, a washroom, and a toilet.\u201d Since the kitchen was on another floor, none was needed here. With more-than-ample room secured for a single person, we aimed at a design in which that very margin leads to ease of living. The client, whose work involved frequent overseas travel, wanted a relaxed, hotel-like space. So, as a place to display inherited paintings, furnishings, and lighting, we provided not a corridor that takes the shortest route to a destination room, but a cloister-like corridor that loops the long way around the walk-in closet and the bath. This corridor is a rational circulation for reaching the living room and bedroom while getting ready after returning home, yet it also produces a calming effect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"works_main_image":677,"works_sub_image":678,"works_location":"Tokyo","works_type":"Renovation","works_completion_year":"2017","ogp_image":675,"ogp_caption":"In 73\u33a1, the only requests were sleeping, storage, and wet areas. The margin of more-than-ample space for one person is turned, by design, into ease of living.","footnotes":""},"works_category":[3,7],"works_tag":[8,17],"class_list":["post-212","works","type-works","status-publish","hentry","works_category-renovation","works_category-residence","works_tag-compacthouse","works_tag-thoughtfulstorage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/works"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works\/212\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"works_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works_category?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"works_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s-designfarm.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works_tag?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}