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European architects to
experiment with varying
silhouettes. In the UK one
thinks of the emerging work of
Caruso St John and Sergison
Bates, while more widely across
continental Europe buildings by
Studio Granda (AR July 1992),
Gigon + Guyer (AR June 2004),
and Herzog & de Meuron (AR
August 2003) have derived new,
distinctive and highly specic
forms that have avoided the lure
of bling and blob. Since the mid
1990s, in opposition to High Tech
and POMO, traditional pitch roof
forms and restrained Swiss boxes
began to morph in response to
site and programme. Articulated
in detail with intricate tectonics,
and through formal distortion
torsion and twists, architectural
nip and tuck typologies slowly
evolved. While space and material
HOUSE , T OKYO
ARCHITECT
JUN A OKI
ATTIC LIGHT
Through the careful distortion
of familiar forms, Jun Aokis
latest Tokyo house makes the
ordinary extraordinary.
1
Jun Aokis G House comprises a
timber-framed attic set above a
concrete plinth.
2
Internally the attic has a complex
arrangement of interlocking
spaces, lit by an irregular
arrangement of skylights.
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closet
3
The central atrium
connects living
rooms with the
mezzanine study,
from where the
uppermost loftlike bedroom is
accessed via stair.
Direct and reflected
light plays on the
attics angular
surfaces.
2
3
8
west elevation (street entrance)
long section
HOUSE , T OKYO
ARCHITECT
JUN A OKI
south elevation
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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short section
parking
kitchen
living/dining
childs bedroom
study
bedroom
bath
cellar
north elevation
3
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7
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bath
4
The uppermost
bedroom sits at
the apex of the
attic.
5
Where timber
meets concrete,
an interstitial
void is expressed
as a continuous
datum.
6
Oblique views
from the
mezzanine study
connect spaces
via the atrium
screen.
7
With the
double-height
atrium and
mezzanine
adjacent to one
another, the full
height of the
lofty attic form
is exploited to
maximum effect.
HOUSE , T OKYO
ARCHITECT
JUN A OKI
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