Tokyo design week: Japanese architects Torafu presented images of a house they have designed for Yokohama at the Pecha Kucha x Design Tide event last week.
Torafu consists of Koichi Suzono and Shinya Kamuro.
No text available in English unfortunately.
They appear to have taken the diagonal as a starting point rather than the upright – so it’s open plan but with clearly marked out ‘zones’ which makes it a quite appealing design
Agreed. I too find it an appealing method of zoning.
Though I wonder how appealing it would be to the heads of small children, and subsequently a family’s insurance bill?
Not a very efficient use of space. The conventional boxes around it contain much more living room.
the roof’s gonna collect rainwater.. and prolly will leak, prepare to be sued i say
what it say?
m…we are in the 21st century..there are tons of ways to solve that problem…look at Casa da Musica in Oporto…
stranger
come on ppl its not about a water collection problem at this kind of hose. its about an expresion. its very mature!
the inward roof can be very efficient for collecting water other than thought of as protecting the user from the rain.