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japanese practice naoya kawabe architect & associates has shared with us images of 'kitaurawa valley',
a three-storey apartment building in saitama, japan. comprised of 14 individual units, the design features
a branching network of exterior staircases that traverse between volumes, resulting in a circulation route
that promotes pockets of communal areas within the overall layout.
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