Suzuko Yamada Architects' Nakano House is a compact Brutalist dwelling in Tokyo, designed for a couple and their two cats.
The house is built with a thick concrete perimeter, treating architecture as a curated arrangement of elemental forces.
Suzuko Yamada Architects orchestrates a choreography of voids inside the Nakano House, in which life happens in the negative space between forms.
The design creates a house that feels like a chunk of urban geology, unyielding yet strangely poetic, with oversized architectural elements and raw concrete surfaces.