A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo

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Casa Coco / CVA Arquitectos

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融入自然的诗意栖居。 “Coco 之家”（Casa Coco）将住宅与自然视作不可分割的的统一体。作为建筑师本人和她的爱犬“Coco”的周末度假小屋，该项目凝练了她对于融入自然栖居的个人追求。设计始于将建筑体量与既有植被精心融合、并与自然地形精准连接的设想。由此，住宅和谐地顺应了陡峭的斜坡，与之融为一体，成为景观中不可或缺的一部分。

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