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The Tank is a shower system of your dreams! It includes a user interface, dial, flow meter, Wi-Fi connectivity and a latching solenoid. It fits easily into your existing shower system and supports easy adoption. In a very clever way, the Tank system makes you aware of your water conservation practices as well as those who are looped in the system. So in a very subtle way, it motivates you to be a water-saver and allows you to share your accomplishments with other like-minded people.

Tank is a Reece Bathroom Innovation Award winner.

Designer: Charles Skender

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Unfinished concrete is combined with exposed plywood in this Tokyo apartment renovated by Japanese architecture firm TANK (+ slideshow)

TANK wanted to create a more spacious and flexible layout in the compact Japanese apartment, which was previously divided by a narrow corridor into various cramped rooms.

“I considered that the room should have flexibility and the tenant can arrange it as she likes,” explains the designer.

The team began by making the bathroom much larger and inserting sliding doors on both sides, enabling an extra route between the bedroom and the hallway.

The narrow entrance hall is designed as a “Doma” – a traditional Japanese entranceway – with a bare concrete floor that contrasts with the raised wooden flooring of the living area.

An exposed larch frame extends out beneath a raw concrete ceiling, while vertical batons combine with plywood sheets to form a screen dividing the bedroom from the living area.

The bedroom and adjacent closet are doorless, with walls and ceilings designed to look deliberately incomplete.

“There are no doors for the bedroom or walk-in closet,” explains TANK. “The walls and ceiling have an unfinished look, I leave it to the tenant’s taste as to how to utilise these rooms.”

A clear glass lampshade houses a bare bulb that descends from the ceiling in the bedroom, casting long shadows from the wooden frame.

Other projects we’ve featured by TANK on Dezeen include an apartment with floors and ceilings covered in the same boards and a Tokyo apartment with removable patches of carpet to be used as flip flops.

See more Japanese houses on Dezeen, or see our Pinterest board filled with Japanese residences.

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Kingyobu est un collectif composé de 5 étudiants de la Kyoto University of Art and Design. Ces derniers ont eu l’idée de remplir plusieurs cabines téléphoniques à Osaka d’eau et de poissons rouge, symboles de joie, chance et de prospérité. Plus d’images de ces aquariums urbains insolites dans la suite.

Kitchen cabinets made from concrete blocks and removable patches of carpet that function as flip-flops can be found inside this Tokyo apartment by architects TANK.

Elsewhere, the architects also used concrete blocks to create low partitions defining the boundaries between rooms.

The only fully enclosed rooms are the adjoined toilet and bathroom, which are entered though a stainless steel door.

Polished stainless steel also provides mirrored kitchen worktops that reflect the unfinished ceiling and exposed electrical cables above.

Suspended curtains in clashing patterns provide privacy screens around the bedroom area.

Tokyo studio TANK are not to be confused with French firm Tank Architectes, whose work you can see here.

Photography is by Eric Bossic.

Here’s some more text from TANK:

About K

This house is for a husband and his wife who have a lot of hobbies such as cooking, cycling, and so on. The client wanted large cooking space,working space, and an ideal bath room, mortar floor, and the skeleton ceiling.

On the way of this planning, we consider how can we create this ideal house with efficieney and save money. We made a proposal to use concrete blocks as a kitchen counter, partition, and storage, same way as a bath room division. There are suite for brutal taste.

We found that the ceiling is covered by heat insulating material at the time of disassembly working. So we used cement board to covered them, and we dare to put bare electric wiring on the cement board, it seems like skeleton ceiling which was the client wanted. This ceiling make feeling like in the high and large space more than before.

The door of the bath room is stenless swing door which are often used at kitchen space or back yard of the restaurant. The door match with counter material, the mortar floor, concrete blocks, stenless, larch wood.

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And these make great harmony. So this house can use as to be in a Gallary or Cooking studio or any other working space as a whole. It would become an unique house to make many creativity.

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Project name: K
Architect: TANK
Project team: TANK(member:Yuki shibata, Ai noguchi)
Construction management: TANK
Date: study / April 2011, construction April 2011-June 2011
Location: Tokyo, Japan