Japanese studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects has recently completed a single family house in the centre of Tokyo. Designed as a live and work space for a young couple, the space has been divided by a series of levels. "Floor-like bookshelf plates," remarks architect Hiroyuki Shinozaki,"are placed at different levels", and then filled with diverse furniture, which characterises the living space, dining room, kitchen and bedroom.

The plans are supported by a series of three-dimensional columns, from which depart all of the separate environments. This simple white structure offers latitude for different spacial composition, playing a crucial role in the definition of each space. In the massive volume of the overall box, each different activity of daily life takes place at a diverse level, with an open view. Suspended lights illuminate each level as a floating stage. "This small residence, with its over-sized furniture," says the architect, "has been designed to showcase life as if in a stage."

Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects: House T
Architects: Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects
Client: private
Site area: 70,31 square metres
Built area: 75,62 square metres
Completion: 2012
Structure: Wood
Structural engineering: Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio
Contractor: Sinei, Ltd