This renovation worked around Japan’s zoning laws by using yobitsugi
Call it some sort of respect for the elder: the zoning laws in the Yamagata prefecture prevented a 30-year-old house made with now-aged materials, to be demolished to make way for a new construction. Unfortunately, that was the specific location C
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