The Roof House Tezuka

When they came to commission a new dwelling from the young partnership of takaharu and yui tezuka the notion of the roof as an external room became the starting point for the design.

The roof house tezuka.

Projects by tezuka architects include the roof house echigo matsunoyama museum of natural science fuji kindergarten and woods of net. Tezuka says that his design roof house has illustrated this idea in a real world scenario citing the family s propensity to sit or lie down across all areas of the roof. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. Floating roof house by tezuka architects is in okayama japan.

Each family member enjoys his own. Their recent awards include japan institute of architects prize 2009. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. Floating roof house by tezuka architects a very delicate work by tezuka architects.

The house is located at the bottom of a hill. 1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop. Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001. 342 70m2 number of stories.

In 1994 he and his wife yui tezuka founded the tokyo based firm tezuka architects. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space. Completed in 2009 in japan. Tezuka says that his.

We want you to make a roof house for five hundred kindergarten pupils we had been introduced by kashiwa sato a creative director who loves the roof house. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. Made out of wood a prominent characteristic of japanese architecture the roof house. Roof house by tezuka architects the conventional idea of a house being an enclosure of four walls and a roof was challenged by tezuka architects in their roof house project.

The kindergarten directors said that it would be good if this kindergarten building also had no balustrades. Okayama japan site area. The proposal came from the clients who used to eat on the roof of their old house. The request from the kindergarten directors was extremely simple in content.

When we made the roof house the husband eliminated the balustrades by merely saying there. There are no balustrades in the roof house. Takaharu tezuka 手塚 貴晴 tezuka takaharu born 23 february 1964 is a japanese architect.