Inviting Nature

[ad_1] By Pari Syal Photography: courtesy the architects . Tokyo’s Naoi Architecture and Design Office design a home that communes with nature via its large hipped roof, partially open to the sky… Designing a home amidst lush ‘satoyama’ or semi-natural woodlands in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Tokyo-based architects, Katsutoshi and Noriko Naoi have woven a single-storeyed home into the natural landscape, blurring the  interior-exterior boundaries with traditional Japanese architectural vocabulary . Responding to the client brief of a simple home with garage for two cars, the architects have helped nurture their clients’ sensibilities by attuning them to their naturally beautiful surroundings; in tandem with […]