Completed in 2020 in Nasu, Japan. Images by Nacasa & Partners, Brian Scott Peterson, Mark Dytham. The Nasu Highlands lay in the northern corner of Tochigi prefecture. It takes no more than 75 minutes by bullet train fromTokyo to the center of this...
“ The roof structure of the building is made from local pine. Two slender timber members with spaced off-cuts form beams, which rise from a lower steel ring beam to a smaller ring which is a part of the roof light. The beams are skinned with plywoodsheets to form a tensioned skin. A layer of rigid insulation is held in place by a grid of timber battens, forming a ventilated cavity, which in turn gets skinned by another layer of plywood, which along with a breather paper layer forms the base for the shingle roof”
