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In central Tokyo, a house requires few domestic facilities. To eat, one goes to a restaurant; to bathe, the sento (public baths); to exercise, the gym; to be entertained, the cinema. The ultimate Tokyo house is somehow like an art gallery: an empty, inward-focused space, suffused with filtered natural light.
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Umebayashi, K., Daniell, T., Webb, M., Allison, P., Kojima, K. (2005). Aura. In: FOBA. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-635-1_4
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