Kyoto

Japan

Humid summers, typhoons, earthquakes as a way of life.

Warm & humidTemperate

The machiya is a lesson in living with humidity: a deep narrow house threaded with courtyards and screens that pull a breeze through its whole length, in a light timber frame that bends with the earth's moods.

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MachiyaKyoto townhouseKyoto, Japan

A narrow, deep timber house threaded by a through-passage and a small planted inner garden (tsuboniwa).

Catch & move airTemperateWarm & humid

Built from

Timber Bamboo