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The owner has renovated a 70-year-old Japanese home. As we pull down the house, parts of pillars and base were rotten but we noticed that most pillars and beams were reusable. For earthquake protection, we have installed an additional layer on top of the original base and changed pillars that were rotten and added diagonal process to add strength. Before the repair, the main living spaces were the small areas of kitchen with 13m2 and chanoma (tea room) with 11m2, very small. Watanabe who designed the home wanted to create a spacious space within the boundaries of earthquake-safe limits. Without much change in the layout of the house, he has first removed the partition between the hall and kitchen and created a spacious 22m2 dining kitchen. The Northern wall of the room that was used as a reception room was removed, and a sliding door was added. If you remove the sliding door the dining and kitchen will be one space with a staircase in the middle. We kept the pine beam in the ceiling of the old kitchen and implemented it as a design feature. We changed the next-door chanoma to wood-flooring and changed Washitsu (Japanese room) that was not used to chanoma (tearoom). Bringing the best of Japanese traditional homes, and removing the cramped and dark negative points he has flexibly accomplished a change in accordance with his age and lifestyle.

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