A very delicate work by tezuka architects.
Roof house tezuka.
Completed in 2012 in okayama japan.
The request from the kindergarten directors was extremely simple in content.
Each family member has their own skylight with ladder to climb up to the roof.
When we made the roof house the husband eliminated the balustrades by merely saying there.
The kindergarten directors said that it would be good if this kindergarten building also had no balustrades.
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.
Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca.
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 1994 he and his wife yui tezuka founded the tokyo based firm tezuka architects.
Completed in 2009 in japan.
Images by katsuhisa kida fototeca.
1f this house boasts chairs a table a kitchen and a shower on its rooftop.
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.
Takaharu tezuka 手塚 貴晴 tezuka takaharu born 23 february 1964 is a japanese architect.
Each family member enjoys his own.
Having visited tezuka architects roof house in hadano ar october 2001 and having discussed the balance of practicality and delight with its owners the kindergarten directors wanted their own inhabited roof deck.
Total floor area 96 89m constructor isoda publication shinkenchiku jt 0108 va 0202 architecture review 0110 in ex 02 0203 completion 2001.
Projects by tezuka architects include the roof house echigo matsunoyama museum of natural science fuji kindergarten and woods of net.
The client s brief for this kindergarten was a simple one liner.
The floating roof allows the.
Their recent awards include japan institute of architects prize 2009.
To provide a roof house for 500 children.
Roof top house by tezuka architects 2001 plan view of roof top house by tezuka architects 2001 is there any designer and or architect from the past you appreciate a lot.
