Simply Sustainable
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Architect Tadashi Murai designed this remote retreat for a Tokyo transplant who abandoned his corporate existence.Photo by: Alessio Guarino -
In Japan, where the average life span of a building is about 25 years, using basic materials like plywood was essential to Murai’s design.Photo by: Alessio Guarino -
The resident, a Tokyo transplant, commissioned architect Tadashi Murai to create a fully equipped structure that comes with its own power, heating and cooling, water, and waste-disposal systems.Photo by: Alessio Guarino -
Other configurations of architect Tadashi Murai's modular design.Photo by: Alessio Guarino
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Low-Tech Utopia
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, which probably isn't an issue when the glass house is a commune.
Little Feet
For his initial Aero House prototype, architect Tadashi Murai wanted something as sustainable as possible.
A Platform for Living
Setsumasa and Mami Kobayashi’s weekend retreat, two and a half hours northwest of Tokyo, is “an arresting concept,” photographer Dean Kaufman says, who documented the singular…
Post Bale
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