The Roof House Tezuka

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.

The roof house tezuka.

When we made the roof house the husband eliminated the balustrades by merely saying there. The roof a single plane which projects beyond the walls of the house appears to float above the main structure of the house. Okayama japan site area. 342 70m2 number of stories.

288 64m2 total floor area. The house is located at the bottom of a hill. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space.

A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. Floating roof house by tezuka architects is in okayama japan. There are no balustrades in the roof house. Projects by tezuka architects include the roof house echigo matsunoyama museum of natural science fuji kindergarten and woods of net.

Completed in 2009 in japan. Their recent awards include japan institute of architects prize 2009. Made out of wood a prominent characteristic of japanese architecture the roof house. Each family member enjoys his own.

Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001. The kindergarten directors said that it would be good if this kindergarten building also had no balustrades. 1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop. 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 proposal came from the clients who used to eat on the roof of their old house. 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. Tezuka says that his. In their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area.

Floating roof house by tezuka architects a very delicate work by tezuka architects. 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. In 1994 he and his wife yui tezuka founded the tokyo based firm tezuka architects.