40 Year Old House Renovation by Torafu Architects, Modern Houses with Rooftop Gardens

<p>A house renovation of a 40 year old building amazingly transformed the basement storage space, offices and apartment on the third floor into bright, spacious and beautiful modern house Megurohoncho that features<span id="more-78589"></span> airy and pleasant interior design and decor, and offers contemporary commercial spaces in the basement and on the ground floor.</p><br/><p>Tokyo based studio Torafu Architects has renovated this building located in Meguro, turning the old concrete building into an attractive contemporary home that combine business and residential spaces.</p><br/><p>Inspiring takeaways from this modern house design and renovation project: spacious interior design and decor, bringing more light into renovated and decorated with light colors rooms, a slightly off center partitions structure that work as functional room dividers and create office spaces with different personalities around it, a large bay window on the second floor that works as a desk in the library, natural interior decorating materials, a flowing design, convenient balconies and a roof garden.</p><br/><p>Green roof, sustainable architecture and rooftop gardens</p><br/><p>Contemporary house design with rooftop gardens</p><br/><h3>House design and renovation project description from the architects</h3><br/><table style="width: 111px;" border="0" align="center"><br/><tbody><br/><tr><br/><td><br/><div class="mceTemp"><br/><dl id="attachment_78592" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 528px;"><br/><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img alt="modern house exterior design with balconies and roof garden" class="size-full wp-image-78592" height="600" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-1.jpg" title="modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho (1)" width="518" /></a>Old house renovation and redesign, modern house exterior design with balconies and roof garden</dt><br/></dl><br/></div><br/></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody><br/></table><br/><p>This is a renovation project of a 40 year-old reinforced concrete building that originally housed storage and office spaces from the basement to the 2nd floor and residential spaces on the 3rd floor. Our current design focused on the building’s exterior and living quarters on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The second phase of the project is set to convert the basement and 1st floor into commercial spaces.</p><br/> <br/> <br/><p>First, all interior partitioning was done away with to free up space. Towering above the surrounding houses, the 3rd floor is well lit and accommodates the living space, while the 2nd floor offers a comparatively more private space.</p><br/><table style="width: 111px;" border="0" align="center"><br/><tbody><br/><tr><br/><td><br/><div class="mceTemp"><br/><dl id="attachment_78593" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 610px;"><br/><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img alt="apartment with staircase in center" class="size-full wp-image-78593" height="450" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-2.jpg" title="modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho (2)" width="600" />Contemporary apartment ideas, light interior decorating colors, modern furniture, wooden floor, large windows, staircase design in center</dt><br/></dl><br/></div><br/></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody><br/></table><br/><p>An aperture was made at the center of the 3rd floor and a large piece of furniture with built-in stairs was placed directly underneath it to create a line of flow inside the building. The slightly off-center furnishing loosely partitions the ensemble, thus creating spaces with different personalities around it.</p><br/><table style="width: 111px;" border="0" align="center"><br/><tbody><br/><tr><br/><td><br/><div class="mceTemp"><br/><dl id="attachment_78594" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 610px;"><br/><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img alt="office interior with room dividers" class=" wp-image-78594" height="378" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-3.jpg" title="modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho (3)" width="600" />Office interior with room divider made of wall partitions and large bay window with office desk</dt><br/></dl><br/></div><br/></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody><br/></table><br/><p>Atop of this piece of furniture connecting the upper and lower floors there is a wide landing that makes another small floor.</p><br/><table style="width: 111px;" border="0" align="center"><br/><tbody><br/><tr><br/><td><br/><div class="mceTemp"><br/><dl id="attachment_78595" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 491px;"><br/><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img alt="entryway design with wooden floor" class="size-full wp-image-78595" height="600" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-4.jpg" title="modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho (4)" width="481" />Entryway design with wooden floor and light interior decorating colors</dt><br/></dl><br/></div><br/></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody><br/></table><br/><p>By making the long bay window on the 2nd floor serve as a big desk or remodeling the veranda on the 3rd floor into a space leading to the entrance, etc., we strived to make newly added elements coexist with the remnants from the existing building and give it an overall sense of unity.</p><br/><p>Inspiring home additions, old house renovation and interior redesign by Lacroiz Chessex</p><br/><p>Dove House Addition to Victorian home in England, house redesign ideas<br/><br/> <style type='text/css'><br/> #gallery-1 {<br/>margin:0;<br/>padding:0;<br/> text-align: center;<br/>width:650px;<br/>}<br/> #gallery-1 .gallery-item {<br/> margin: 5px 0 0 0 ;<br/> text-align: center;<br/> width: 646px; <br/>}<br/> #gallery-1 img {<br/>margin:0;<br/> }<br/> #gallery-1 .gallery-caption {<br/> margin-left: 0;<br/> }<br/> </style><br/> <!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php --><br/> <div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-78589'><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="contemporary apartment ideas" class="attachment-full" height="450" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-5.jpg" width="600" /><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="staircase design in center of house" class="attachment-full" height="600" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-6.jpg" width="450" /><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="room divider made of partition walls with staircase" class="attachment-full" height="450" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-7.jpg" width="600" /><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="modern house design section" class="attachment-full" height="600" src="http://3.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-8.jpg" width="463" /><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="apartment ideas" class="attachment-full" height="450" src="http://3.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-9.jpg" width="600" /><br/> </dt></dl><br style="clear: both" /><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="wooden staircase" class="attachment-full" height="600" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-10.jpg" width="450" /><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><br/> <dt class='gallery-icon'><br/> <img alt="room divider made of partitions with shelves" class="attachment-full" height="419" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/modern-houses-renovation-interior-redesign-house-megurohoncho-11.jpg" width="600" /><br/> </dt></dl><br/> <br style='clear: both;' /><br/> </div><br/></p>

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Useful Ideas For Small-Space Gardens

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Green Building in Rural Urban Style with Spacious Apartments and Private Small Gardens

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It offers tenants large contemporary apartments that can be modified and redesigned with convenient movable partitions, giving a feel of private houses.</p><br/><p>Green building ideas, green Cast design by Kengo Kuma</p><br/><p>Green roof, sustainable architecture and rooftop gardens</p><br/><table border="0" align="center"><br/><tbody><br/><tr><br/><td><br/><p><div id="attachment_83055" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img alt="residential tower exterior design with small gardens on terraces" class="size-full wp-image-83055" height="541" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/green-building-apartment-ideas-small-gardens-1.jpg" title="green-building-apartment-ideas-small-gardens (1)" width="600" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Green building exterior design with small gardens of terraces</p></div></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody><br/></table><br/><p>This green building design in rural-urban style is based on the idea of taking only if we are able to give. Natural Evolution offers alternative eco homes that return to the fundamental concept of individual housing and rehabilitate a fallen icon, – small villages.</p><br/> <br/> <br/><p>Like a village the residential tower Natural Evolution is organized and structured around areas that are meeting places, small squares and children playgrounds.</p><br/><table border="0" align="center"><br/><tbody><br/><tr><br/><td><br/><p><div id="attachment_83056" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img alt="green building in rural urban style" class=" wp-image-83056" height="451" src="http://2.lushome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/green-building-apartment-ideas-small-gardens-2.jpg" title="green-building-apartment-ideas-small-gardens (2)" width="600" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Residential tower exterior in spring and fall</p></div></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody><br/></table><br/><p>Natural Evolution has small private gardens and public spaces with trees, bushes and flower beds. 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