The Roof House Tezuka

The kindergarten directors said that it would be good if this kindergarten building also had no balustrades.

The roof house tezuka.

Each family member enjoys his own. Floating roof house by tezuka architects a very delicate work by tezuka architects. The proposal came from the clients who used to eat on the roof of their old house. 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.

Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof. 342 70m2 number of stories. Okayama japan site area. Made out of wood a prominent characteristic of japanese architecture the roof house.

Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001. 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. In 1994 he and his wife yui tezuka founded the tokyo based firm tezuka architects. 288 64m2 total floor area.

Completed in 2009 in japan. Projects by tezuka architects include the roof house echigo matsunoyama museum of natural science fuji kindergarten and woods of net. Tezuka says that his. The house is located at the bottom of a hill.

The roof a single plane which projects beyond the walls of the house appears to float above the main structure of the house. When we made the roof house the husband eliminated the balustrades by merely saying there. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. Their recent awards include japan institute of architects prize 2009.

Floating roof house by tezuka architects is in okayama japan. There are no balustrades in the roof house. Takaharu tezuka 手塚 貴晴 tezuka takaharu born 23 february 1964 is a japanese architect. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof.

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. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space.