This house is located at the beautification zone of the ancient city of Kyoto, and it is built like two lean-to extended out from the 2-story main house.

© Takumi Ota

Architects: Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture

Location: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Architect In Charge: Hideyuki Nakayama

Area: 59.71 sqm

Project Year: 2009

Photographs: Takumi Ota , Courtesy of Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture

Structural Engineers: Mitsuda Structural Consultants

General Contractor: Shimizu-komuten Corporation

Curtain: Akane Moriyama

Site Area: 83.33m2

Built Area: 42.9m2

© Takumi Ota
From the architect. This house is located at the beautification zone of the ancient city of Kyoto, and it is built like two lean-to extended out from the 2-story main house.

Courtesy of Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture

The center of activities is, if anything, based on those lean-to. Those spaces are simply produced by spanning rafters between the retaining walls of the adjacent house and the main house, end various elements such as kitchen, a dining table, furniture and a bath tub are set around the main house, encircling the main house. The space is somewhat like a passage garden by alternately aligning the exterior and the lean-to along with the site bou...