Sekisui House A Type Prefab Home 3

A 53-year old holiday home in Karuizawa is to be the first prefab home in Japan to receive a heritage listing.

The Yamasaki-Usui Villa was built in 1963 in Karuizawa - a popular mountain resort area in Nagano Prefecture. The single-storey house is part of Sekisui House’s ‘A-Type’ of prefab homes. These homes revolutionised Japan’s home-building industry in the 1960s. The house remains in largely original condition and is said to be the oldest surviving A-type model in the country.

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