Tezuka Architects 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.

Tezuka architects roof house.

Text description provided by the architects. Up on the roof. Japanese firm tezuka architects have designed gable roof house. Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects.

We design houses that we would like to live in ourselves. Designing homes is at the heart of our works as we believe that home is the basis for every architecture. The house is located at the bottom of a hill. Each house has been designed with care and attention spending months on examining every detail.

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 enjoys his own skylight from which a. Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof. As the name suggests the house has.

A very delicate work by tezuka architects. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the. Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca.

A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area.