Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create a spacious void of shadows .
Named Terrace House near Demachiyanagi, the home has a historic facade that Atelier Luke restored while bringing contemporary Japanese and Australian design sensibilities into the interior.
Above: Atelier Luke has restored an old row house. Top image: it occupies a narrow plot in Kyoto
The studio started the project by stripping the house back to its structure, revealing previously hidden roof beams that they chose to make into a feature.
Perhaps counterintuitively, they did so by staining the timber of the upper storey and ceiling black.