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June 11, 2009 Live-in Pets By: Cooper-Hewitt N. from New York, NY Comments: 0 Architects Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and his partner Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow launched their practice at the height of the Japanese financial crisis in the early nineties, and were forced to think about maximising the tiny spaces that Tokyo offered as opportunities rather than constraints. So was born the "Pet" or small customised building inspired by Japanese metropolitan vernacular architecture: "Micro buildings ... squeezed into gaps between larger buildings, or on miniscule plots". Look at their work and ideas on https://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature49404/. One of their real estate office designs utilizes a street frontage of less than a metre and "Pet" designs spring up in unlikely plots using every advantage of available light and space to advantage, in some cases leaning on existing structures or framing a neighbor's wall as improvised art. This is a great example of a design idea literally squeezing between the cracks and flourishing, and of the way a tough economic climate can inspire innovation.

June 11, 2009

Live-in Pets

By: Cooper-Hewitt N. from New York, NY
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Architects Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and his partner Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow launched their practice at the height of the Japanese financial crisis in the early nineties, and were forced to think about maximising the tiny spaces that Tokyo offered as opportunities rather than constraints. So was born the "Pet" or small customised building inspired by Japanese metropolitan vernacular architecture: "Micro buildings ... squeezed into gaps between larger buildings, or on miniscule plots". Look at their work and ideas on https://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature49404/. One of their real estate office designs utilizes a street frontage of less than a metre and "Pet" designs spring up in unlikely plots using every advantage of available light and space to advantage, in some cases leaning on existing structures or framing a neighbor's wall as improvised art. This is a great example of a design idea literally squeezing between the cracks and flourishing, and of the way a tough economic climate can inspire innovation.

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Posted By: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum On: 6/11/2009 12:30:07 PM Architects Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and his partner Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow launched their practice at the height of the Japanese financial crisis in the early nineties, and were forced to think about maximising the tiny spaces that Tokyo offered as opportunities rather than constraints. So was born the "Pet" or small customised building inspired by Japanese metropolitan vernacular architecture: "Micro buildings ... squeezed into gaps between larger buildings, or on miniscule plots". Look at their work and ideas on https://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature49404/. One of their real estate office designs utilizes a street frontage of less than a metre and "Pet" designs spring up in unlikely plots using every advantage of available light and space to advantage, in some cases leaning on existing structures or framing a neighbor's wall as improvised art. This is a great example of a design idea literally squeezing between the cracks and flourishing, and of the way a tough economic climate can inspire innovation.

Posted By: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
On: 6/11/2009 12:30:07 PM

Architects Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and his partner Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow launched their practice at the height of the Japanese financial crisis in the early nineties, and were forced to think about maximising the tiny spaces that Tokyo offered as opportunities rather than constraints. So was born the "Pet" or small customised building inspired by Japanese metropolitan vernacular architecture: "Micro buildings ... squeezed into gaps between larger buildings, or on miniscule plots". Look at their work and ideas on https://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature49404/. One of their real estate office designs utilizes a street frontage of less than a metre and "Pet" designs spring up in unlikely plots using every advantage of available light and space to advantage, in some cases leaning on existing structures or framing a neighbor's wall as improvised art. This is a great example of a design idea literally squeezing between the cracks and flourishing, and of the way a tough economic climate can inspire innovation.

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