Japanese studio mA-style architects has completed a metal-clad house with a smaller wooden house inside (+ slideshow).
The playhouse-like structure has a gabled rooftop that just skims the uppermost ceiling of the two-storey residence in Makinohara, which itself is a rectilinear box.
Located at the centre of the house, the little structure contains living rooms on both levels, while bathrooms and a closet are also slotted inside it on the ground floor.
Openings in the walls and ceiling provide windows to the rooms beyond, which include a kitchen and dining room below and bedrooms above.
Other Japanese houses we've featured include one with a climbing wall inside and another with hardly any walls.
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Here's a few extra details from the architects:
Project name: ant-house
Location: Shizuoka, Makinohara, Japan
Program: Single family house
Year: Completion: 2012
Project by: mA-style architects
Team: Atsushi Kawamoto & Mayumi Kawamoto
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this house-in-a-house thing seems to be hip today. i'm expecting the first house-in-a-house-in-a-house soon.
sou fuijimoto? box in box in box?
A very good project, the architecture japanese always exploring new ways of living
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/20/fiu-fiu-boutique…
Sou Fujimoto has done it already.
Also, where's the section ?
Probably the most interesting drawing to show…
The poor neighbours… see first, non-slideshow, shot.
uh….section?
Wooden box encased in metal box? Barely any windows?
Sharpen them stakes boys! we've found us a vampire nest >:)
I am sick of the plywood interiors trend. It was cool (and still kind of is) in minor usage for one or two things in a project, but when the entire interior is plywood, it just looks like the house is unfinished.
Lazy designers cashing in on a conveniently easy-to-imitate fad if you ask me.
Actually I love the creativity of this project. The several layers of the walls between walls along with the openings are amazing. I love the use of plywood throughout the house. It gives it a midcentury modern look. Good post!