WORKS - Houses and Housings

FURNITURE HOUSE 1 - Yamanashi, Japan, 1995

No.1

The construction system for the Furniture

House features factory produced full-height
units that function as structural elements as
well as space-defining elements. Since these
units are pre-fabricated, construction time
on-site is greatly reduced and cost-effective.
Serving both as the furniture and as the
building material, these units enable a
reduction of equipment and labor, as well.
(The dimensions of the units used in this
house are 2.4 meters high, 0.9 meters wide,
with an 0.45 meters depth for bookcases and
a 690mm depth for other units.) An individual
unit, weighing about 79.2kg, can be easily
handled by a single person, and its selfsupporting function makes the arrangement
simple.

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