GAZEBO
Yokohama, Japan · 1986
Photo · Tomio Ohashi
A precedent for integrated rooftop living, demonstrating how lightweight tensile structures, timber decking, and glazed pavilions can create a functional, private outdoor courtyard in a dense urban environment.
- What we like about this project
- A fully glazed bathroom pavilion opens directly onto the communal outdoor deck.
Materials
- timber-decking
- exposed-concrete
- glass
- steel
- tensile-fabric
Visual identifiers
- rooftop-terrace
- tensile-canopy
- timber-deck
- glazed-pavilion
- exposed-concrete-wall
Style tags
- high-tech
- modernist
- japanese-modernism
Visual tags
- rooftop-garden
- indoor-outdoor
- residential
- tensile-structure
- japanese-modernism
- Geometry
- An open-air rooftop terrace defined by a flat timber deck, flanked by a glazed bathroom pavilion on the left, a concrete wall on the right, and a central glazed living volume. Overhead, lightweight steel trusses support curved tensile fabric canopies.
- Facade system
- Aluminum-framed sliding glass doors and storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete main structure with lightweight steel-frame roof additions.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate residential scale, designed for domestic outdoor living.
- Lighting
- Warm interior lighting glows through the glass facades, contrasting with the cool, soft blue of the twilight sky.
- Atmosphere
- A serene and warm domestic sanctuary elevated above the city at dusk.
- Environmental context
- A dense urban rooftop setting in Yokohama, Japan, elevated above the surrounding neighborhood.
- Spatial experience
- The space functions as an elevated outdoor living room or courtyard, seamlessly connecting indoor living spaces and a glazed bathroom to a private deck under a twilight sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical framing of the central living space, balanced by the vertical concrete mass on the right and the glazed bathroom on the left.
- Style reading
- High-tech Japanese modernism
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber-decking, exposed-concrete, glass, steel, tensile-fabric
- Visual identifiers
- rooftop-terrace, tensile-canopy, timber-deck, glazed-pavilion, exposed-concrete-wall
- Style tags
- high-tech, modernist, japanese-modernism
- Visual tags
- rooftop-garden, indoor-outdoor, residential, tensile-structure, japanese-modernism
- Geometry
- An open-air rooftop terrace defined by a flat timber deck, flanked by a glazed bathroom pavilion on the left, a concrete wall on the right, and a central glazed living volume. Overhead, lightweight steel trusses support curved tensile fabric canopies.
- Facade system
- Aluminum-framed sliding glass doors and storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete main structure with lightweight steel-frame roof additions.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate residential scale, designed for domestic outdoor living.
- Lighting
- Warm interior lighting glows through the glass facades, contrasting with the cool, soft blue of the twilight sky.
- Atmosphere
- A serene and warm domestic sanctuary elevated above the city at dusk.
- Environmental context
- A dense urban rooftop setting in Yokohama, Japan, elevated above the surrounding neighborhood.
- Spatial experience
- The space functions as an elevated outdoor living room or courtyard, seamlessly connecting indoor living spaces and a glazed bathroom to a private deck under a twilight sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical framing of the central living space, balanced by the vertical concrete mass on the right and the glazed bathroom on the left.
- Style reading
- High-tech Japanese modernism
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture