Far from Kyoto’s temples and tourist attractions, the Nishinoyama House sits at the edge of the city surrounded by single-family homes and small agricultural plots. The latest project from the Tokyo architect Kazuyo Sejima, the building contains 10 unique apartments unified by a gridded ground plan and a sequence of overlapping, pitched roofs. Pointing inward and upward, the slanted planes reach their pinnacle at the center of the site. Harmonizing with the architectural vernacular as well as the hilly landscape, they unite the building’s disparate parts into a man-made mound of wood, glass, and steel.
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