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This house in Toyota, Japan, is an unusual take on an open-plan house. Instead of expanding outwards, Japanese architect Katsutoshi Sasaki designed his personal residence in to stretch upwards.
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It’s not for the claustrophobic (or acrophobic)—the tall sliver of a building is just five feet wide in some places and has few windows aside from a series of clerestory windows that wrap the house.
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What the house lacks in width, though, it makes up for in height. Sasaki designed the home around series of plywood platforms that open onto a main atrium space reaching 26 feet tall. Without doors, the rooms look like a series of cut-aways that reveal what any given person is doing at a particular time.
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A sequence of staircases leads from one level to the next, winding a precarious path through the wooden interior. The vertical layout allows for some interesting, if tight, uses of space. A series of desks are built into the walls on one level, creating a group work nook. Plants dangle off the edge of the platforms, which gives the space an open-air effect.
Via: Dezeen
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