Vertical Oriented Home Design in Kyoto, Japan – O House by Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture

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Japanese firm Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture have completed the O House project, located at the beautification zone of the ancient city of Kyoto. The house design is built like two lean-to extended out from the 2-story main house.

The volume of the house can appear like a tower, or a castle wall depending on the location to look at. The place where the family sleeps is on second floor of the main house and one will access from the staircase reaching out from the passage garden, therefore it is as if like going home rather than simply going to a bedroom. In this way the interior of the main house became a space slightly kept distance from the area spending daily lives.

The inside is a curved Horizont-like space, where the portion of the staircase, the thin steelframe floor, and the equally lined fittings are scattered around without displaying a sense of distance to each other. The relationship among those elements can be visible only after the residents reside and move around, along with thefurniture placed at certain locations and drops shadow of each. The gable side of the house shows the doll-house conditions, open and visible from the adjacent street. Photographs by Takumi Ota

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