Apollo Architects & Associates has designed a family home with a walled-in garden that houses two generations under one roof and aims to blend indoor and outdoor living.
Tokyo-based architecture studio Apollo Architects & Associates replaced an existing home in Japan's Kanto region with a two-storey building designed to emphasise the connection between the interior and the garden.
A concrete wall surrounds Noble House
Located in a quiet residential neighbourhood, Noble House and its garden are surrounded by a tall, concrete wall that aims to create the feel of an "inner world".
"The house is facing three different sides," Apollo Architects & Associates founder Satoshi Kurosaki told Dezeen.
"In order to ensure security and privacy, we surrounded it with tall, board-formed concrete walls to create an 'inner world.'" It has a walled-in garden with two pine trees from the original gardens
Trees from the previous garden were kept as a part of the new landscape design, while added species were scattered throughout the space to create a diverse garden.
"We tried to inherit the memory of the old house by incorporating the magnificent pine tree and podocarpus tree which was in the Japanese garden of the original house, adding more trees to create a fuller landscape," Kurosaki said.
The interior and exterior are blurred through glass walls and terraces
Constructed over two levels, the home was designed to separately house two genera...