Triton is a minimal house located in Osaka, Japan, designed by JP architects. The site is located in a favorable environment that faces a line of cherry trees on a river bank, and a pond on its northern side. Despite this absolute view, the architects designed a house in which the residents can discover the various seasonally changing expressions of the pond, cherry trees, and environment by creating a planar shape that encourage the residents to orient their body towards various directions. The designers built a large half-outdoors space they referred to as the “inner-terrace.” As a result, the unity and completeness of the structure are overridden, so that one feels the space expanding into the entire environment, surpassing both structure and site boundaries.

Photography by Takumi Ota