Tatami House / Julius Taminiau Architects

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Architects: Julius Taminiau Architects
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Area: 160.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Norbert Wunderling
Other Participants: Oranje Arkenbouw
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Text description provided by the architects. The house is designed by Julius Taminiau Architects and based in a "floating village" within Amsterdam. The budget for this project was very low and therefore it was decided to rationalize the design as much as possible and to make it as clever as possible. The Japanese Tatami size and arrangement was used as an inspiration for this project. A Tatami is a type of mat which is used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms.
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There are rules concerning the number of Tatami mats and the layout of the Tatami mats in a room. The proportion of the Tatami is similar to the proportion of a standard sized plywood panel. We used the Tatami as a grid...

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