Oyamadai House, Tokyo

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Frontoffice’s Tokyo Home Provides Privacy with a Roof Terrace That Peeks above the Trees

In Tokyo, Japan, architectural design firm Frontoffice has realized a house that affords its tenants privacy and space by opening up, rather than closing off. Determined to create a home that could provide solitude and seclusion without rejecting the city around them, the design makes clever use of the surrounding building’s windowless façades, allowing an open plan building to reveal its interior without compromising the family’s privacy. The team liken the finished project to ‘a clearing in the midst of a forest’.
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