A Story of a House

It’s a film that tells a story of a house being renovated on the initiative of an individual owner in Tokyo.Tokyo is performing constant change with the single‐family house as the main component of the city’s urban fabric. Within its abundance of highly individual homes at present, all local governments are recording a so far almost invisible phenomenon – vacancy. As renovation is still in its infancy compared to western practices, Tokyo offers considerable potential to young individuals, architects, planners to take action and create community. OGU MAG + is such a project. As part of the design team, we were documenting the process of transformation. The complete film is presently in the making and will be screened to the local community later this year, encouraging owners to take action and shape their neighbourhood with their power of citymaking. It can be any house of a million single‐family dwellings. Our gratitude goes to all participants in the project: Hideko + Terumi SAITO, Tomohiro ONUKI, Tochiku team and their talented craftsmen, Kazuhiro ASAMI, Yu NINAGAWA and Souta MORI.