With only 36 m2 to work with, the design team gave this home a vertical lift. The street is not visible from outside, which shuts out a lot of light, though the open, tapered roof compensates for this by pushing daylight throughout the well-ventilated building. True to Japanese form, this home is furnished with bare minimalism, but it still manages to encourage community and fun in this residential neighborhood.
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Be-fun-design teamed up with the folks from EANA to give an active couple in Shinagawa-Ku, Japan a home that allows them to enjoy their outdoor activities inside! For starters, they capped the upper storey with a fun climbing wall, and then created a rooftop terrace full of leafy greens that can be reached with a nifty ladder. As if all that were not enough, the slim section of the roof looks like a chimney, but it’s actually a skylight well that pumps a flood of daylight right down to the ground…
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Be Fun Design teamed up with EANA to work on this slim home
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With only 36m2 to work with, the team gave the residential building vertical lift
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Since it lacked windows, they topped it off with a large skylight well
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Daylighting reaches to the ground level of the home
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Daylighting reaches to the ground level of the home
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The home is also incredibly well-ventilated
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And it is capped with a rock-climbing wall, reflecting the owners’ love of outdoors activities
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A rooftop terrace full of leafy greens is accessed by a ladder
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The skylights elongate the home and push daylight throughout
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The home is wrapped around the kitchen
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Although decidedly minimalist, this home is still communal
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