Tezuka Architects Roof House

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

Tezuka architects roof house.

Text description provided by the architects. A very delicate work by tezuka architects. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. 1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop.

Originally published in ar october 2001 this piece was republished online in september 2011. 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. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. 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 floating roof allows the slope to continue through the. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. Tezuka architects have completed over 60 residential projects. We design houses that we would like to live in ourselves.

The house is located at the bottom of a hill. Up on the roof. Each family member enjoys his own skylight from which a. As the name suggests the house has.

Designing homes is at the heart of our works as we believe that home is the basis for every architecture. Japanese firm tezuka architects have designed gable roof house.