Tezuka Architects Roof House

A very delicate work by tezuka architects.

Tezuka architects roof house.

As the name suggests the house has. We design houses that we would like to live in ourselves. Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the.

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 has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. The private residence has a floor area of approximately 106m2 constructed primarily with wood.

Each house has been designed with care and attention spending months on examining every detail. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. Japanese firm tezuka architects have designed gable roof house. 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.

Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011. Text description provided by the architects. Up on the roof. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of 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. The house is located at the bottom of a hill.