Glass-fronted bathroom takes centre stage in Kyoto home

Architecture studio 07Beach has placed a bathroom alongside a central courtyard at the centre of this house in Kyoto to give the clients the feeling of "open-air bathing" in their own home.
Japan and Vietnam-based 07Beach created the house on a tight urban site with no space for a garden and very few areas for windows on the external walls.To bring light into the house the studio arranged the rooms around a sky-lit courtyard planted with a tree.
"The clients preferred an open plan