The Terrace House began with a simple question: if a household consists of only two people and a dog, how should a home be organized to truly support their way of living? Rather than following the conventional model of a family house, the project defines itself through shared living spaces and a generous upper terrace […]
This villa in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, was designed for a retired couple to spend their holidays. The rectangular volume, measuring 18.6 meters in width and 6.8 meters in depth, is placed along the front of a broad 990 m² site.
Scientifically, glass is defined as an amorphous solid, meaning its atoms are not arranged in a regular crystalline structure. This is why the material is often described as a "liquid frozen in time." This structural configuration explains one of its most distinctive qualities: transparency. Without a crystalline lattice capable of scattering light, radiation passes through […]