The Monoclinic House in Tokyo, designed by Japanese firm Atelier Tekuto, features an angled roof that hosts an incredible skylight. The skylight was created using geometric shapes – a square and four triangles – which are arranged in a way that allows natural light to flood the inside.
The exterior of the structure is completely white, and when viewed from the street, it does not seem to have any perpendicular edges. Atelier Tekuto opted for this polyhedron design because it has been shown to make effective use of the minimal space that plagues congested urban areas.
The space was designed as a three-level residence for a client, and includes two studio apartments that can be rented out. The primary residence is at the front of the building. The living room is located on the first floor, below the five-meter high skylight. The bedroom is situated on the second-floor mezzanine, so it also benefits from the fractured light filtering through the ceiling. A metal spiral staircase leads to a room that can be used as a workshop, and the studios for rent are tucked neatly behind it. The interior of the structure features exposed concrete, metallic appliances, and modern lighting fixtures.
“One of the key components was to ‘design the sky’, because when designing a house in an urban context surrounded by buildings, the sky is the most important natural element in direct contact with architecture,” Atelier Tekuto told Dezeen. “The top plane of this polyhedron form becomes a large light, connecting the living space with the sky.”
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[via Dezeen]
