a narrow sunroom ("engawa"), which constitutes an intermediate space or buffer zone between interior and exterior.
The Gifu Kitagata project proposes a shared urban community of closely knit apartments that create an urban allegory of the village. The circulation routes, storage space and laundry areas are used as the physical and communal connections. These are zones that are given the least attention in contemporary residential design.
Sejima allows the daily chores of laundry and basic house maintenance , usually completed by the women of the household, to become more prominent.
"These free zones of undefined ownership become "baits" for the inhabitants to gain extra space, more light and better ventilation. By enhancing the idea of sharing resources, this colonization of spaces tends to break the isolation of social housing and creates various types and sizes of communal space for the inhabitants to meet one another, hang out, team up and exchange conversation: a modem envision of the traditional neighbourhood.
Such communal space ultimately leads to the genuine public space of the housing scheme, blurring the boundary between the private garden and the public space. As a result, the design as a whole attempt to rethink how housing units and shared spaces function spatially, and on a macro perspective, how the identity of a locale is defined. "
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