Skyterrace Apartment

Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano

SKYTERRACE APARTMENT

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ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Takashi Nabeshima, Kazuyuki Teraoka

PHOTOGRAPHS
Toshiyuki Yano

STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Komatsu Structural Design

AREA
272 m²

MANUFACTURERS
Sanwa, Board, Hosoda Wood Industries, LIXIL, Lilycolor, SHIKOKU CHEMICALS, TSUKIBOSHI, Woods meister, toolbox

CATEGORY
Apartments

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Suginami City, Japan

Text description provided by architect.

A house opened to the sky - This apartment complex is located in a dense urban area in Tokyo.

Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano

We have lost our privacy because of the smart phones and SNS that connect everyone anywhere and anytime in the present day.

I think we need an architecture that gives us time to slowly communicate with ourselves when we go home after a tired day.

Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano

This architecture strengthens the privacy by closing the façade in narrow front roads and densely urban area.

Conversely, This architecture has each own private courtyard terrace that open up to the sky in the inside.Residents look up at the sky, and they relax here.

This isolated space creates the slow and relaxing time. It is a space to communicate with themselves.

Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano

The coexistence of the closed exterior and the open interior gives them the comfortable time and environment to communicate with themselves, and recharge their mind and body.

This architecture cures their smartphone and SNS addiction of the present illnesses. And I hope it will be an opportunity to rethink what a truly happy and affluent life is.

Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano


Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano


Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano
Skyterrace Apartment
© Toshiyuki Yano


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