Japanese-based firm Nendo has completed a novel three-story two-family home in Tokyo. With three generations of the same family sharing the space, the living quarters for the older couple is situated on the 1st floor, while the 2nd and 3rd levels house the younger couple and their child.
Spanning from the front yard ground level to the peak of the third floor is an expansive "stairway-like" structure that penetrates through the building. Offering separation with a degree of preserved connectedness.
Inside the stairway are usable spaces such as bathrooms and an actual usable staircase. Concrete was used for the exterior steps while steel makes up the interior steps.
The south elevation, which contains the protruding stairway, offers full-height glazing, allowing natural daylight into the home while further solidifying the continuous effect of the extruded steps.
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What I wanted to see was teh Cat Room.
from Nendo's webby site: The eight cats living with the older couple roam in and outdoors more freely, and encourages the mother to enjoy her hobby of gardening more freely.
oh my!
no handrails(!)
PICKETS!
c'mon 'nect, gotta show the section!
Fantastic.
I take it that the skylight is for Grandma and Grandpa to ascend for the final time. But that last set of risers is a mother, ironically.
And maybe a thread devoted to album-cover-themed buildings is in order.
Looks like one of my school projects.
right down to teh CAT ROOM?!?
Wow. So cold and dangerous. <shudder>
that's what teh eight cats are for! welcome to archinect, Zuby!
I love it.
I especially admire the rodent entry shown in the 8th photo. True Fyou architecture!
Looks like they cut the glass around the stair, probably a bead of silicon there, too.
It's a three inch gap with daylight coming though it.
Look at the other photos. Air gaps don't have reflections.
I guess the cats act as sealant against rodent entry.
No reflection!
You will make a great plan checker some day, and will remain at that.
Look again. Also use your damned brain. Do you honestly think they would build a house with a gap that large? And then publish it?
Hey, paw paw, LOOK. I found a line where the glass meets the step! What could it BE?!
rest easy, stourleyk!
BOOM! (goes the dynamite)
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