The site faces not only a wide street with heavy traffic but also a subway station. Hiroyuki Ito Architects thought it wasn’t appropriate to adopt a steel structure because of noisy neighborhood but adopting a reinforced concrete structure, columns and beams might become too unwieldy for objects in a small room whose area is 30 square meters or more.
But if the spaces between columns and beams could be considered as niches that would provide cozy rooms that protect the inhabitants from noise and vibrations. A six column structure instead four was adopted in order to keep the structure smaller as to create between them a suitable space for a comfortable living. The dimensions are slightly adjusted so that they could be used as benches, low tables, bed spaces, and tables.
