Type: New house
Location: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Method: Traditional Japanese wooden construction
Tsuchikabe walls reinforced by bamboo laths
Total floor area: 66.9 m2
Completed: 2010
Design/construction: Seyseysha

This one-story house is located in residential area in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo by traditional construction methods.
For the building materials, we used solid cedar, cypress, red pine, and chestnut, all from Japan.
All the walls follow the age-old form: clay reinforced by bamboo laths. We used a middle-layer plaster finish (a mixed coating of clay, sand, and stray) for the interior walls and Tosa shikkui handa shiage (a mixture of clay, sand, straw, and Tosa plaster) for the outside walls.

The married couple asked me to build a house to spent their life after retirement.
The lifestyle is not the original of Japanese traditional house. They use a table and chairs in the kitchen-dining room. I planed it that contains both Japanese and Western life styles.