House Call: Tezuka Architects' Wall-Less House
With My Great Outdoors in full swing we wanted to highlight some architecture that made good use of the outdoors. Tezuka Architects in Japan created this modern wonder--a house that is all but missing its four walls. This house brings the outdoors in by eliminating the distinction between indoors and out. Like a previous housetour, the house is surrounded by lush foliage and relies on the garden for privacy.
Built in 2000 in Japan, the house is supported by a central core that allows for glass walls on all sides. The vertical nature of the house gives the occupants plenty of space for living and with windows at every turn, the link to the outside is clear. Walking up the stairs one sees sky, walking downstairs one can see the garden.
For more indoor/outdoor inspiration, see some of their other buildings: The Floating Roof House and The Balcony House.
(Image: Tezuka Architects)
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It's gorgeous, but I've seen too many slasher films to ever be comfortable in a glass house at night; I'd feel too exposed.
view Lisa (Montreal)'s profile
i've seen this a few months ago from arch daily. and at first i like it but it is a bit too open.
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Lisa -- LMAO - I was thinking the same thing.
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This is not a "modern wonder" at all.
Credit has to be given to Mies van der Rohe for his Farnsworth House, built in the 1940's in Plano Illinois.
http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/history.htm
Sixty years later, someone puts another story or two on it......the only "wonder" is "what took so long?!"
LOL
view ohjodi's profile
lemme remind you: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Max Cetto, Walter Gropius...
ring a bell?
view Vicadin's profile
These are interesting looking.....but probably wouldn't be practical with kids or neighbors.
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Aside from the ground floor, which is essentially a covered patio, I don't see how this house successfully eliminates the distinction between indoors and outdoors in - everything inside is slick and extremely inorganic. I suppose the effect must be different from inside the structure.
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