Tezuka Architects Roof House

The house is located at the bottom of a hill.

Tezuka architects roof house.

Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof. Each house has been designed with care and attention spending months on examining every detail. 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. A very delicate work by tezuka architects.

Designing homes is at the heart of our works as we believe that home is the basis for every architecture. Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects. Text description provided by the architects. Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011.

Each family member enjoys his own skylight from which a. 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. As the name suggests the house has.

The private residence has a floor area of approximately 106m2 constructed primarily with wood. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. Up on the roof. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof.

The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the. 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.