Sprawling and diffuse, wasteful of land and resources, suburbs are seen as the enemy of density, sustainability and social progress. Yet their appeal endures and many people still hanker after the suburban lifestyle. This project in a suburb of Aichi near Nagoya in central Japan attempts to devise a workable alternative to the house-on-a-plot default suburban model by creating a cluster of townhouses, interconnected by a network of semi-private courtyards and walkways. The outcome is a loose assemblage of volumes peppered with spatial incident and animated by variations in scale and materials.
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