Tezuka Architects Roof House

Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof.

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. Each family member enjoys his own skylight from which a. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca.

Japanese firm tezuka architects have designed gable roof house. The private residence has a floor area of approximately 106m2 constructed primarily with wood. A very delicate work by tezuka architects. 1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop.

We design houses that we would like to live in ourselves. Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. Up on the roof.

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. Designing homes is at the heart of our works as we believe that home is the basis for every architecture. 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 floating roof allows the slope to continue through the.

The house is located at the bottom of a hill. Text description provided by the architects.