The Roof House Tezuka

There are no balustrades in the roof house.

The roof house tezuka.

Each family member enjoys his own. Completed in 2009 in japan. The kindergarten directors said that it would be good if this kindergarten building also had no balustrades. Floating roof house by tezuka architects is in okayama japan.

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. Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof. The request from the kindergarten directors was extremely simple in content. Takaharu tezuka 手塚 貴晴 tezuka takaharu born 23 february 1964 is a japanese architect.

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. 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 their previous house the family appropriated the roof as an informal outdoor terrace extending their living area.

The house is located at the bottom of a hill. A house with table chairs kitchen shower and stove on top of the roof. 288 64m2 total floor area. Projects by tezuka architects include the roof house echigo matsunoyama museum of natural science fuji kindergarten and woods of net.

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. 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. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space.

Their recent awards include japan institute of architects prize 2009. Made out of wood a prominent characteristic of japanese architecture the roof house. Tezuka says that his. 1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop.

In 1994 he and his wife yui tezuka founded the tokyo based firm tezuka architects. When we made the roof house the husband eliminated the balustrades by merely saying there. Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca.