Japanese houses
House and art studio by Alphaville features a diamond-shaped plan and a pointed roof
Takanobu Kishimoto’s Platform is a home built around a train carriage
Curving walls eclipse glazed facade of park-side house in Japan by Tsuyoshi Kawata
IHRMK’s house with a staggered profile looks out over a landscape of paddy fields
Trellis canopy shades courtyard of Pergola house by Apollo Architects
Alphaville’s Dig In the Sky house is made up of three blocks connected by bridges
House by Double Negatives Architecture adapted to suit a difficult woodland site
Spiral stairs puncture hilly floors inside Takeshi Hosaka’s House in Byobugaura
Blackened timber retreat by Studio Aula built in the woods outside Tokyo
Live-in gallery and studio by Flat House hides utility rooms in a central cylinder
Yoshio Ohno’s black timber house straddles a concrete escarpment in Hiroshima
Architecture Atelier Akio Takatsuka divides Quad House into unequal sections
Woodland home by Hiroshi Nakamura designed to resemble a cluster of timber tepees
NAAD lines a century-old Japanese house with exposed plywood
Suppose Design Office’s House in Hibaru stretches down to the edge of a reservoir
Hiroshima Hut by Suppose Design Office is a see-through house with sunken rooms
A staircase lands on a desk inside House in Hikone by Tato Architects
Glass-coated Tokyo house by Wiel Arets looks like it’s been shrink wrapped
Asymmetric House in Tourimachi slots between two buildings
Tokyo house bridges the rooftops of a dental surgery and garage
Matsuyama Architects builds concrete house on inclining site in Japanese housing estate
Takeru Shoji Architects tops a timber-clad Japanese house with a “big hat”
Overhanging roof forms a hood over Japanese house by Moca Architects
