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Floating Roof House / Tezuka Architects
A very delicate work by Tezuka Architects.
The house is located at the bottom of a hill. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space.
Principal use: Residence
Building site: Okayama, Japan
Site area: 1035.92m2
Building area: 288.64m2
Total floor area: 342.70m2
Number of stories: 1F
Structure: Reinforced Concret + Steel
Architects: Tezuka Architects – Takaharu+Yui Tezuka, Masahiro Ikeda, Chie Nabeshima, Hiroshi Tomikawa
Architectural and Structural desing: Tezuka Architects + MASAHIRO IKEDA co., ltd
Lighting design: Masahide Kakudate (Masahide Kakudate Lighting Architect & Associates, Inc.)
Construction: Kajima Corporation, Hiroshima
Design period: 2004.4-2004.12
Construction period: 2005.1-2005.8
Photography: Katsuhisa Kida / FOTOTECA
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I wonder how is live into?
Really nice project. Simple, elegant and clear. And what a couch! I’m not sure how the shade-less bulbs will work, though, unless they’re pretty dim (which they may be). But a full-watt bulb just hanging there would be hard to look at, right?
I really admire the simplicity. A fine way to live.
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is certainly a very interesting approach to the concept of living forms
Magical, both with and without blinds. So precise, so Japanese!
sencilla pero espectacular
They have a great portfolio of projects, wonderful simplicity!
They ripped this off from Chad Oppenheim
I just don`t like the toilet in the middle of the house sticking out from the rest of the rooms. I keep on thinking that while i am playing my sonata someone will flush the toilet! Although it does makes a nice corner for the piano i think it is a bit clumsy in terms of hierarchy of function/form.It could have been intergrated differently…what do you guys think? Very un-japanese and unlike Tezuka to have clumsy plans! Nevertheless the house is an achievement!
It reminds me of some of the New Zealand “shed” bach designs, that open up completely to nature. eg Ken Crosson
IT’S SO FANCY
Exquisite perfection! I can smell the wood!
Rubbish. Very Japanese in that it embodies their inability to scrap a bad idea once inertia takes over.
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