Tezuka Architects Roof House

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

Tezuka architects roof house.

The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. 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.

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. 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. We design houses that we would like to live in ourselves.

In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. Up on the roof. The private residence has a floor area of approximately 106m2 constructed primarily with wood. Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011.

Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001. A very delicate work by tezuka architects. Each family member enjoys his own skylight from which a.

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