Corridors, courts and thresholds are often measured as circulation. They can also be the places where a house feels most alive.
Beyond the room schedule
A brief lists rooms because rooms are easy to count. It says less about the route between breakfast and the garden, or the place where someone stops to read. These moments ask for attention even when they have no assigned name.
The inhabited threshold
At Mori Court, the edge of the garden is wide enough to become a place in its own right. It is a route, but also a bench, a play space and a place to open a door after the rain. Its ambiguity is intentional.
Privacy without distance
Shared living does not require constant contact. Sliding screens and changes in level offer a choice of connection. People can remain aware of one another without sharing the same room or the same activity.
A generous plan
Generosity need not mean a large floor area. Sometimes it comes from a view across two rooms, a second way into a garden or a patch of sunlight at the end of a passage. These small relationships give daily life more possibilities.
Notes from an independent practice.
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