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Posted on Saturday, September 17 th, 2011 at 5:53 pm by GabrilJapanese Ring House in the forest
Ando Studio and TNA (Takei – Nabeshima – Architects), has designed an amazing small tower house on a commission in the town of Karuizawa located approximately 300 km north-west from Tokyo. The ring house is wrapped in glass and cedar wood and has a 360 ° view of the forest. The house stands in a dark place on uneven ground which gives access by bridge, is divided into three floors of approximately 33 square meters each, a single scale is set at an angle on square geometry and open s...
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New Kyoto Town House by Alphaville
In the historic district of Kyoto, the Japanese architects Kentaro Takeguchi and Asako Yamamoto founders of Alphaville Studio, scramble the codes of the traditional Japanese town house, narrow and dark. They have designed interior walls with light wood polyhedral shapes based on logical concepts and multiple functions.Photos © Kei Sugino and K. Takeguchi + Via Alphaville
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Tokyo: Tree House Design by Mount Fuji Architect
The Tree House designed by the Japanese Architects studio Mount Fuji located in densely developed residential area in Tokyo. The project name refers to the development of vertical space in the residence, around a large central pillar, reproduce the branching of a tree. The particular promiscuity with the adjacent dwellings and the consequential sense of “oppression” generated from the site, led the designers to exclude a horizontal architecture for a vertical design, because the hou...
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