The Horizontal House is a house made completely with stone on the North side of a small village in Japan. It was designed with the intention to not look much like a house and to blend in with the older houses within the village. The scenery surrounding the village is beautiful, made up of lush green forests and winding mountains.

Because of this beautiful scenery, the Horizontal house was designed to be able to view the scenery from any room within the house. To do this, the Eastern Design Office inserted windows throughout the home with a ‘slit’ of a window running throughout its long hallways to be able to look out of when someone is walking through the hallway.