Y House by TOFU

2 February 2011

Here's another house by Osaka studio TOFU Architects (see their N House in our earlier story), this time located in Fukui, Japan, and completely wrapped in a material normally used for roofing.

Called Y House, the tall narrow building has a sloping roof and staggered façade clad in an aluminium-zinc alloy.

There are three storeys at the front of the house but the sloping roof means there are only two floors at the rear of the building.

The living space is located on the second floor, with a large window providing views of the surrounding fields and mountains.

The spare room sits in the eaves at the very top of the house, with a little glazed section in the middle of its floor, allowing views into the level below.

Photographs are by Dan Imai.

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Here's some more information from the architects:

Y-HOUSE

This is small house for the young couple in Obama, Fukui, Japan. There is a vacant lot around the site.

So, by creating a large window on the second floor, it is possible to see paddy fields, mountains, sky and feel to spread over a floor area.

This plan has high ceilings and large living with cross sections of two small rooms. By the relationship between great room and small room, we created many different places in the small house.