北野的房子丨日本

Architects:Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

Area:116m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Toshiyuki Yano

Category:Houses

City:Kobe

Country:Japan

Text description provided by the architects. This project is a residential design in the Kitano area, Kobe. The city of Kobe is defined by its hilly terrain, shaped by the uplift of the Rokko mountain range, resulting in a cityscape of slopes and inclines. Within this topography, the gaze from the mountains toward the sea has long been a characteristic feature of the urban environment, passed down through generations.

Kitano, located on the hillside of Kobe, offers especially expansive views of the city. The act of "looking far into the distance" is a fundamental instinctive behavior of humans. When this innate desire intersects with the terrain and the city's history and culture, it shapes a unique landscape structure. Our goal with this project was to create a residence that embodies this structure.

To enable greater freedom in their projection, they are suspended from the roof, which resembles a canopy, using a rod-like structure that evokes the image of a tree firmly rooted in the slope to live in connection with the cityscape and the distant view beyond.

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