Interiors

Kōen House

Kōen House

Location

Kyoto, Japan

Year

2024

Area

180 m²

Client

Private residence

(02)

The project

A dark, quiet interior for a tea collector: plaster, blackened oak and one lit window at the end of every corridor.

A dark, quiet interior for a tea collector: plaster, blackened oak and one lit window at the end of every corridor.

The brief was a house that slows you down. Every corridor ends in a lit opening, so the eye always has somewhere to rest.

Materials

Hand-troweled lime plaster, blackened oak floors and paper screens. Lighting is set low and warm, hidden in reveals so you see the light, not the fitting.

Apse

Architecture, interiors, landscape and restoration. Lisbon and Copenhagen.

© 2026 Apse Studio

38.7223° N, 9.1393° W

Style guide

Apse

Architecture, interiors, landscape and restoration. Lisbon and Copenhagen.

© 2026 Apse Studio

38.7223° N, 9.1393° W

Style guide

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