Local practice Slow has created a family home in Nagoya, Japan, which has a raw exterior of blackened wood and corten steel topped with an overhanging pitched roof.
Occupying a slightly raised corner plot bordered by roads, Slow gave the home, named Yamaguchicho House, an almost windowless exterior for privacy, making use of skylights to illuminate its "healing", sanctuary-like interiors.
The home's exterior is clad with charred cedar wood
Fronted by a sloping garden that wraps around the building to create external paths, the entrance to Yamaguchicho House is set within a box of corten steel.
Organised across a single storey, the home centres around a combined living, dining and kitchen space, which steps up to two bedrooms in the home's slightly raised western end. An almost windowless exterior enables privacy within the home
Dividing these two sides of the home is a central bathroom, wrapped by exposed concrete walls that double as the backdrop to the kitchen counters in the living area.
"We put a concrete box inside a wooden box and divided it into three layers: gathering, plumbing, and private space, and connecting these spaces with ceilings and glass," Slow founder Michitaro Kondo told Dezeen.
"We connected the spaces so that you can see the presence of your family no matter where you are in the room."
The home is set within a box of corten steel
An elevated storage unit in black wood divides the living area from a narrow, skylit entra...