Park House by Another Apartment
Japanese studio Another Apartment has completed a house with an asymmetric roof on a narrow site in suburban Tokyo.
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Constructed across the street from a local park, the three-storey house has a glazed facade intended to offer views out towards the trees.
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"I started to think about creating a comfortable space where the attraction of park extends in," says architect Tsuyoshi Kobayashi of Another Apartment.
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A garage and bathroom take up most of the ground floor of Park House, so the architect located the living room and bedroom on the middle storey then added a mezzanine loft beneath the angled roof.
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A ladder connects the two upper floors, while wooden staircase treads lead up from the ground floor, beginning with a chunky triangular block.
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"With a light impression, the stairs look like thin plates appearing from the wall," says Kobayashi.
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Galvanised steel panels clad the exterior of the house and fold up over the roof.
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Other Japanese houses featured on Dezeen recently include a residence where rooms spiral up to a rooftop terrace and a weekend retreat with windows of various shapes and sizes.
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Photography is by Koichi Torimura.
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