Via @designboom, a house in Osaka, Japan that overlooks Osaka Bay with "a multi-storey window that serves as an open interface between the interior and exterior, putting on display a large painted tree in the atrium-like void space."




"The layout of the interior arranges the void space between the domestic zone and the studio/atelier, providing a spatial buffer that also serves as a sound barrier." More at Daijiro Takakusa Architects & Associates.