our kind of house
May 13, 2011 Leave a comment
we love minimalist Japanese home design. located in the suburb area of chiba, japan, ‘house in yotsukaido’ by tokyo based practice studio noa,
is a residence that looks to merge the boundaries between private interior space and the outlying environmental context.
a solid black form cantilevers over a semi-opaque volume, inverting the traditional structural orientation.
enclosing the ground floor, the cloudy surface provides an area to transition the homeowner between the
contrasting atmospheres. housing an internal garden and stoney pathway, the corridor acts as a greenhouse,
introducing natural light and vegetation into the private home. at night, interior lights radiate through the
translucent skin, illuminating the solid black structure, which appears to float in the sky.
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