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It's a silly question of mine, but I have always wondered how Shinichi's house is actually like inside. As in, the blueprint and all.

We know the front of Shinichi's house, tall and square and quite symmetrical—a traditional and quite creepy look when Gosho intentionally draws it so. In anime, however, it's beautifully classic, with a touch of modern look thanks to the glasses. (I know nothing about architecture though, so please kindly point out if you think I'm talking nonsense. )



However, the Kudou's house has a very big, very high and very round library. This is what puzzles me. Where does the Kudou put it, actually? Behind the house? Or the square block on either side is actually a clever disguise for something like that inside?

Moreover, the house has a chimney. I wonder where it leads to since I haven't noticed any fireplace inside. Talking about fireplace, where is the living room? Is there even one? The place that Shinichi/Conan and now Okiya use to greet their several guests is the library, where everyone can easily access. Asami Uchida, the girl makes Shinichi's favorite lemon pie, has come in cool as you please. (chap 173) Which beg the question, where exactly is the library?

We know that Shinichi sleeps on the second floor, on the left wing, according to the anime, when Shinichi was awaken by the explosion from Agasa's house and looked out the window. (ep 1) But manga doesn't give this detail. (I think so. Please just tell me if I'm mistaken.)

I can remember a scene where Ran's looking around the house for Shinichi, then Conan put his hand on hers on the stair balcony and then left a pair of gloves behind for her. But I can't remember where it is. Can anyone remind me? If I remember right, Ran had tried to open some doors before that.  

I wonder where is that staircase. Because with a house that big and that classic, the staircase must be big and classic too. Again, I know nothing about architecture. XD

Uhm, yeah, that is it. *sheepish* If this is as silly a question as I think it is, please just give me an answer and put me out of my misery. Thank you.

We don't even have a detailed blueprint of Mouri Detective Agency which is a lot less complex.

Lol. Yeah, but at least in that case we're familiar with it enough to draw a make-shift one.

We haven't seen half of the house so it's not odd that we don't know much about it

And I think the library is in the middle of the house somewhere since there are no windows to make sure there are more room for books

And I think the library is in the middle of the house somewhere since there are no windows to make sure there are more room for books 

Yeah, that reminds me of another question. How do they ventilate that room? Air-conditioners seem the most logical explanation, but it doesn't fit in my imagination. Too modern for that kind of house, maybe? Besides, this is the picture of the room in chapter 2

http://www.mangareader.net/139-8048-15/ ... ter-2.html

This air-conditioner must be super-uper-powerful.

Do you plan on building your house to be identical to shinichi's? i did that on luigi mansion gamecube.

I'll presume this is not a practice of sarcasm and answer accordingly. I'm writing a DC fic, actually. And I kinda need to understand the inner construction of that house to move people around. I don't have an easy access to the whole series to study this particular matter, so I'm searching around for help. ^^

I'm more curious as to the design of Agasa's house.  It seems to basically be a big, circular room, but then offshoots to go upstairs and downstairs.  However, despite there being an upstairs, and siderooms on the main floor, we never really see them, especially from the outside.

GinRei wrote: I'm more curious as to the design of Agasa's house.  It seems to basically be a big, circular room, but then offshoots to go upstairs and downstairs.  However, despite there being an upstairs, and siderooms on the main floor, we never really see them, especially from the outside.

I always imagined Agasa's house as basically being a large circular middle room, encompassed within a slightly larger circle (the house's perimeter), and between those circles is where the side rooms are housed, along with the staircases, which arc along the perimeter to the upstairs/downstairs portions.

for Shinichi's house, I just imagined the Library as being the main body of the house (connected directly to the entrance or the entrance room), with the other rooms being housed in the wings.

(though, I never put much thought into these, so I dunno how well these actually match up with how we see the houses in the show)

this what i think using rough (MS paint) sketch
central of shinichi house is library that is directly in front of main door. the sketch is not really accurate. libary actually bit samller and the house it self is pretty big and not symetrical

http://www.mangareader.net/139-8179-17/ ... r-133.html
http://www.mangareader.net/detective-conan/812/12

while agasa house
is very minimalism. i suspect there is only 2-3 room at maximum (we know it have basement and bedroom)

most of other house stuff like kitchen and even "bathroom" http://www.mangareader.net/139-8297-6/detective-conan/chapter-251.html  (probably there is another one in basement)  is situated in ground floor

yeah i think for shinichi's house it's quite complicated. having any sort of circular room in a rectangular-shaped house seems weird. that would mean that some rooms outside the library will have to have a circular wall, which we haven't seen yet. for kogoro's i think it's quite straightforward. the office is just this rectangular room on the second floor and they live directly above the office on the third floor.

Well, really don't have an idea. Just had a look when the movie starts a room full of books and sometime in between.. in mangas..

serene_saber wrote:

And I think the library is in the middle of the house somewhere since there are no windows to make sure there are more room for books 

Yeah, that reminds me of another question. How do they ventilate that room? Air-conditioners seem the most logical explanation, but it doesn't fit in my imagination. Too modern for that kind of house, maybe? Besides, this is the picture of the room in chapter 2

http://www.mangareader.net/139-8048-15/ ... ter-2.html

This air-conditioner must be super-uper-powerful.

ill try to answer that.

The room ceiling/roof is designed like a mosque dome. It make heat on the room goes up. and the lower part of the room stay cool.

on the sides of the dome can be placed many small holes that cant be seen due to angle.

I've done some (a lot) searching, and from what I can make sense of, I sketch this.
(The bold lines indicate the windows or doors)

References:
+ The outside + front windows: http://www.mangareader.net/139-8179-17/ ... r-133.html
+ The stairs & the main hall:
      http://www.mangareader.net/139-8094-15/ ... er-48.html
      http://www.mangareader.net/detective-conan/812/9
+ The library & kitchen: http://www.mangareader.net/detective-conan/812/12 (Thank rrizqiw!)
+ Shinichi's room: Episode 1 (Shinchi looked through the window to see Agasa destroy their shared wall with his newest invention)

The details are not exact, of course. There are many things I can't understand, such as the (to me) inconsistent details from inside and outside concerning the right wing of the house. And I don't know what that small bird house (next to the central window upstairs) is. What can it possibly be?

And nope, still don't know where Gosho puts the fireplaces and the chimneys.

Thanks for your input, everyone. I've completed my chapter.

I was looking for this topic earlier. I collected a bunch of shots of Agasa's house which should help put it together. Anyone interested?

Sure, go ahead please. If you do I'll change the topic's name into "Shinichi's and Agasa's house".

Chekhov MacGuffin wrote: I was looking for this topic earlier. I collected a bunch of shots of Agasa's house which should help put it together. Anyone interested?

I always was puzzled by Agasa's house so I'm very interested^^