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© Toshiyuki Yano
There is, in fact, no shortage of greenery here, but the client of Tomohiro Hata’s Earth House wanted more con- tact with nature and a building that would have a long life instead of – as is so often the case in Japan – being demol- ished long before the end of its technical life and replaced by a new building.