Blank metal facade of Tokyo home hides tree-planted courtyard

Apollo Architects & Associates has designed the austere metal-clad exterior of this compact home to disguise a central planted courtyard covered by exposed wooden rafters.
Leaf House is located in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Tokyo where its owners also run a dentistry clinic.Its name refers to the visual similarity of the roof rafters to the veins of a leaf.
Conceived by Apollo Architects & Associates as an "intermediate area between the indoors and the outside world", the home