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A one-room mansion (wan rūmu manshon ワンルームマンション) is a Japanese apartment style in which there is only one small room (10 m 2 or 3.0 tsubo or 110 sq ft in many cases) and usually a compact bathroom. It is the functional equivalent of the Western-style studio apartment. These units are most often rented by single individuals ...
Many new construction Japanese apartments have no washitsu at all, instead using linoleum or hardwood floors. The size of a washitsu is measured by the number of tatami mats, using the counter word jō (畳), which, depending on the area, are between 1.5 m 2 and 1.8 m 2. (See tatami.) Typical room sizes are six or eight tatami mats in a private ...
In Japan, the size of a room is usually measured in relation to the size of tatami mats (-畳, -jō), about 1.653 m 2 (17.79 sq ft) for a standard Nagoya-size tatami. Alternatively, in terms of traditional Japanese area units , room area (and especially house floor area) is measured in terms of tsubo , where one tsubo is the area of two tatami ...
The jewelry designer in her living room, where bonsai trees are lined up on a custom granite bench. The Japanese cocktail table is from the 19th-century, and the low chairs are by Morito Ebine.
At first it was an architectural style for the villas of daimyo (Japanese feudal lords) and court nobles, but in the Edo period (1683–1807) it was applied to ryōtei (Japanese-style restaurants) and chashitsu, and later it was also applied to residences. [6]
In the Azuchi-Momoyama period not only sukiya style but the contrasting shoin-zukuri (書院造) of residences of the warrior class developed. While sukiya was a small space, simple and austere, shoin-zukuri style was that of large, magnificent reception areas, the setting for the pomp and ceremony of the feudal lords.
Genkan are traditional Japanese entryway areas for a house, apartment, or building, a combination of a porch and a doormat. [1] It is usually located inside the building directly in front of the door. The primary function of genkan is for the removal of shoes before entering the main part of the house or building.
During 1961, Lagutenko's institute released the K-7 design of a prefabricated 5-story building that became typical of the khrushchevka. 64,000 units (3,000,000 m 2 or 32,000,000 sq ft) of this type were built in Moscow from 1961 to 1968. The khrushchevkas were cheap, and sometimes an entire building could be constructed within two weeks.