Architecture And Designs

Wooden Forest Apartment by Ikeda Yukie Architects

Japanese architects Ikeda Yukie have completed Wooden Forest Apartment, a renovation of an old two-storey wooden house in Nakano, Tokyo. The architects have retained and exposed the building’s original wooden columns but wrapped everything else in white, leaving a forest of columns piercing each floor. Originally, the second floor was an old style Japanese dormitory with several walls dividing the floor into tiny rooms. Since then, numerous renovations and extensions were carried out. Immediately prior to our joining the project, the second floor was used as a part of family house - a bit chaotic and still with a scattering of columns, remnants of the old walls.