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Upon doing a little digging in Ito's project portfolio, the Aluminium Cottage reveals itself to be a refined, modernized version of a previous design Ito designed in 1973/74.

Similarly sized (about 624 square feet of interior space) but more traditionally finished, Cottage in Sengataki looks every bit the part of the precursor of the Aluminium Cottage. Instead of a metal exterior finish, the Sengataki cottage was finished with Japanese wood, but shares the same 2 story loft scheme, while flipping the surface tension of materials used inside out. Here warm wood greets you from the front facade, only to reveal a spartan, modern interior within. Fascinating to see the designs designed decades apart, reverse mirror images of one another.

Metal or wood, we'd happily take either version, as we love small spaces with loft solutions.

[via Blue Ant Studio]