Tezuka Architects Roof House

A very delicate work by tezuka architects.

Tezuka architects roof house.

The private residence has a floor area of approximately 106m2 constructed primarily with wood. Designing homes is at the heart of our works as we believe that home is the basis for every architecture. 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. We design houses that we would like to live in ourselves.

1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop. Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof. Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca.

Each family member enjoys his own skylight from which a. Text description provided by the architects. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the.

Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects. As the name suggests the house has. Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011. 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. Up on the roof.