YNAS uses timber-framed canopies to reconnect Japanese home with the outdoors

Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its interiors and improving its connection to the surroundings with corrugated-metal canopies. Named House in Miyakonojo, the extension was designed for a couple who, after raising their children and changing careers, decided to return to the wife's ancestral