Posted on 4/1/2016
As one of the world's largest and most expensive cities, it would come as no surprise that Tokyo can be, at places, pretty strapped for space. The result can leave the city's residents, who are looking to build their dream home, struggling to find their own perfect plot of land, no matter of size or location. It can also offer ample motivation for a variety of clever and creative solutions.
An example of the genre, the Nerima house is a recently completed residential build in Tokyo by Stockholm based architects Elding Oscarson. The project is located on a fairly compact 100 sq m, 35 year old garden plot in the leafy outskirts of the Japanese capital. From the very start of the project, the client had requested to preserve as much of the garden's plants as p...