inside the three-story house, there are eight “window rooms” spread throughout the house. They buffer the noise and other elements from outside come into the house while allowing air and natural light to be admitted.
This prompted the architect Jun Aoki to consider the exterior facade to be a backdrop of the cityscape. The color of the exterior wall – bluish black plaster – simulates the surface of the road. The prestressed concrete louvers (explained in detail below) are left in bare concrete color, just like the power pole in front of the house.
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