![RIBBON / Komada Architects' Office - Windows, Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5122/9989/b3fc/4b23/f900/00e1/medium_jpg/308_niigatashi_ikedatei.jpg?1361422259)
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Architects: Komada Architects' Office
- Area: 172 m²
- Year: 2011
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Photographs:Toshihiro Sobajima
![RIBBON / Komada Architects' Office - Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5122/99ad/b3fc/4bdc/c200/00f0/medium_jpg/015_niigatashi_ikedatei.jpg?1361222058)
Ribbon is a house built in Niigata city.
![RIBBON / Komada Architects' Office - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5122/9999/b3fc/4b2f/6500/00e7/medium_jpg/201_niigatashi_ikedatei.jpg?1361222037)
In winter we have little daylight hours in Niigata so we wanted interior to be filled with faint light all the time.
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A long and slender window turns around the house with the gabled roof like a ribbon. This ribbon window draws a light filled around the house in the time of a clouded sky.
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The floor of the second floor is skipped up and down between a ribbon window, so that it becomes a high side light for LDK and tectonic window for child's room.