Tezuka Architects Roof House

Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001.

Tezuka architects roof house. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the. Japanese firm tezuka architects have designed gable roof house. Designing homes is at the heart of our works as we believe that home is the basis for every architecture. Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011.

House by tezuka architects hadano japan topped by a roof deck that doubles as an external room this family house is an inventive if vertiginous response to tokyo s lack of space. The house is located at the bottom of a hill. When they came to commission a new dwelling from the young partnership of takaharu and yui tezuka the notion of the roof as an external room became the starting point for the design. Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof.

Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. As the name suggests the house has. Each family member enjoys his own skylight from which a. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof.

Text description provided by the architects. Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects. The private residence has a floor area of approximately 106m2 constructed primarily with wood. 1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop.

In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. A very delicate work by tezuka architects.