Strata House

The Strata House pushes the boundaries of residential design with an abstracted design far from the familiarities of typical housing tropes. Three cleanly defined rectilinear blocks stack up in a seemingly carefree manner, the gesture akin to a child’s play of building blocks writ large.

The site is bordered by a house on one side, another to the rear and a view of Mt. Yotei to the front in the northeast. The house is placed length-wise toward the premium vista, with a cluster of existing trees tucked in between the house and neighbour on the side. Rather than blocking the prized mountain view, this arrangement generously shares it by allowing visual porosity through the plot.