Heidi House, Uehara Tokyo travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Heidi House is located in an up-central residential area of Tokyo. The house is keep back from the adjoining site boundaries by 3 meters so there is no fire proofing of the external wall was necessary. This offset from the boundary line established the plan of the building. This is an extremely example for low cost studio and office space.

The idea and construction of the house is very creative simple wooden framed structure was built and lined internally with plywood for lateral strength. An external layer of plywood was not needed structurally, so instead of this layer and a waterproof siding.

Long window openings were made in the plywood sheets in between the structural frame. Internally the plywood skin was painted white, while the wooden structural core of the building was wallpapered with black wallpaper. The wooden ceiling structure was left exposed. No insulation was used in the wall construction, the trapped air pockets used form a thermal buffer.

Many houses are made of wood in Japan, but because they are covered with metal or plastic siding, sometimes even fake bricks, you have no idea that the house is made of wood. It is very clear that this house is made of wood!It is a beautiful wooden-glass house.