Tomohiro Hata's Loop House faces inwards onto a central courtyard

Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates built Loop House around a planted central courtyard in pursuit of peace and quiet for a dense urban site in Hyogo, Japan.
A series of elevated veranda spaces overlook the courtyard in a design that is an inversion of the Katsura Imperial Villa. The historic villa in Kyoto has a veranda around its perimeter overlooking a traditional Japanese garden."I thought that if I cut into the Katsura's plan and rotated it so that it was enclosed in a circle, perhaps I