This is a rental housing plan.

We built a total of three buildings: two rental houses and one row house with two units. Due to strict regulations, we can only plan low-rise buildings, but the neighborhood is a residential area, so if the rental housing we planned later was too big and ostentatious, it would look unbalanced. Also, since it is rental housing, there is a budget based on income and expenditure, but we took advantage of this and made it compact and low-cost.

This area, where a dice-shaped box-shaped building appears to have been placed casually, is a rental property, but it has been actively greened and has a garden, making it a place that is familiar to both the residents and the neighbors. The ceiling height has been kept to a minimum, while at the same time creating an open atrium to add contrast and ensure brightness and ventilation, creating a layout that feels spacious despite its small size. For the exterior and interior, we considered both cost reduction and design, using a method that uses galvalume steel sheets as they are for the exterior walls, and allowing the interior flooring on the second floor to be exposed as it is for the first floor ceiling, creating a shape that uses the materials as they are.

Of course, one aim is to reduce costs, but the three buildings all have different floor plans, all of which aim to be as minimal as possible.

A single house like this would stand out from the rest, but by stacking several of them together, it creates a lovely, rhythmic look.