Curved Little House by Studio Velocity

The small site has an elongated shape surrounded by shops and houses. The required elements were spaces for parking 2 cars, a space for drying laundry, and a space for the shop. Therefore, the project pushed to the back to provide a K-turn and parking area.

outdoor garden Curved Little House by Studio Velocity

The architect place the main space at the most remote part of the site, while the entrance was on the opposite, street-facing side. The building transverses the site in a gentle manner and so residual exterior spaces are created. These residual spaces became a garden, the drying space, and the parking area, and all of them complete the beauty continuous style of a studio apartment shop as a whole.

continuous interior Curved Little House by Studio Velocity

The curve shape of the building is something like the volume of the entrance door stretched, and the section at the entrance is only the size of the door. However, the section becomes larger both vertically and horizontally, as one walks into the back, and becomes subtly smaller again at the end.

Curved Little House plan by Studio Velocity

At the same time, the architect creates 3 distinctive zones out of one room by changing the density of the openings. The first is the entrance space. With the largest opening on the wall, one can feel the openness and the proximity to the outside regardless of its small space, almost the same size as that of the door. The second is the cutting space in the middle. The light rhythmically streams into the space from the 5 small side windows with a view of the garden. The third is the shampoo space in the back. This space is the one most filled with natural light from the building’s skylight.
Architects: Studio Velocity
House in: Nagoya, Japan