At first glance, it looks like it’s going to melt.
A Japanese architectural office has designed an imaginative house in Tokyo, the striking feature of which is a radically sloping front wall.
This “distorted” wall appears as if the “earth is dynamically rising out of the ground,” a statement reveals.
A tunnel through the impressive wall leads visitors to the front door and invites them to ‘leave the ordinary and enter the extraordinary’.
The building was designed for an aspiring manga artist – a graphic novel of sorts – her partner and their two pet owls.
A Japanese architect’s office has designed an imaginative house in Tokyo, the striking feature of which is a radically sloping front wall
Architectural firm Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL says the residence, which has a traditional Japanese wooden frame, was intended as “a building that hangs a few inches above our everyday life.”
The unconventional shape of the house is in harmony with the long and narrow plot on which it is built – it is 4.9 m wide and 14.7 m deep.
According to the architects, the client of the split-level design – with two stories at the front and three stories at the back – submitted three applications before construction began.
First, she requested that the house also serve as her studio, a space for creative conceptualization, meetings and media interviews.
Second, she asked to keep the house compact and not let in too much natural light.
Finally, and “most importantly,” the artist said she needed a home that inspired creativity.
Photos show the house is decorated in a palette of pebble gray stone, warm wood and teal paint.
A tunnel leads visitors to the front door and invites them to “step out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary”.
The “distorted” wall appears as “Earth dynamically rising from the ground”
The architectural firm Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL – which is behind the project – says the project was envisioned as “a building that hangs a few inches above our everyday lives.”
The building was designed for an aspiring manga artist, her partner and their two pet owls
A wooden staircase leads through the property and winds past built-in wooden bookshelves.
This is not the only innovative design that the architect’s founder has come up with. Tan Yamanouchi is also behind the award-winning Manga Art Hotel in Tokyo, a “manga-themed concept capsule hotel” where guests can browse 5,000 manga releases.
In an unusual twist, guests are invited to have a “sleepless” night at the hotel and spend the early hours browsing manga instead of catching up on some sleep.
The building is constructed with a traditional Japanese timber frame
The house is decorated in a palette of pebble gray stone and warm woods. On the right of the photo is a square room in the building that is painted teal
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