Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata has completed a house in Kyoto, Japan, that has a three-storey wooden house hidden inside it.
Called Belly House, the project involved constructing the exterior according to strict local guidelines, then creating a three-storey wooden framework through its centre to further divide the space.
This results in a double-height living room and study in the spaces between the inner and outer walls.
Here's some more information from Tomohiro Hata:
Belly House
This project is a house in KYOTO, JAPAN.
There are many laws to restrict external shape , color, materials and volume.
So the externals of the architecture is regimented in this area.
We led the maximum "package" from the decided law, and inserted the volume like a large tree that free from the formal package.
As a result, we achieved to create the informal free space to live while climbing up and down in the formal package.
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Nice Concept
she’s so beautiful!!!
killed space, killed trees, nice pictures
WE HAVE TO GO ROUND AND ROUND??? WOW..AND THE PATHWAY KINDA NARROW I THINK
That’s a pretty cool design. I’ve never seen anything like that. It’s a little too roomy for me though. :D
fresh idea … like it!
Naughty wood bothers me. Wait, I mean knotty wood. Boy, is my face red.
It’s nice, but I prefer Kalkin’s Bunny Lane re the house within a house concept. http://www.architectureandhygiene.com/bunnyLane/bunnyLane_main.html
I want one! …..
lovely concept and well executed
the pathway is indeed a little bit narrow but it’s nice overall
So this is what it would be like if I lived inside a Russian doll…. Nice!
Anything goes in Japan it seems. Certainly different.
Why do they have to publish relatively many architetural projects from Japan?
The only reason I can think of is that houses for ordinary Japanese are small by the Western standards and for that very reason may set good examples for other countries afflicted with double burdens of urbanization and population growth.
Outside is less tempting than the interior but very interresting concept!
Form fools around the regulations.. Clear concept addressing to the point the restrictions of the context.
its cool ! i realy like the idea of windows ! but i dont like the pointrys of the hall way . it was better if they where wider and curve.
–CAUSES ONE TO CONTEMPLATE OR BE AWARE OF “INSIDE”–WHAT IT MEANS TO BE INSIDE. I LIKE IT! AS AN INTERIOR DESIGNER, IT WOULD BE A FUN CHALLENGE TO DESIGN THE INTERIOR APPOINTMENTS.