Forget Green Roof, go Glass roof! (just kidding...)
Experimenting with the limits between inside and outside is truly what makes me tick! Connectedness... among people, to the outside... aside from making you want to use an umbrella to access to the bathroom, this building makes you want to take a deep breath of fresh air, doesn't it?Atelier Tenjinyama / Ikimono Architects
Source: http://www.archdaily.com/145462/atelier-tenjinyama-ikimono-architec
With an earth floor and a glass roof this building, design by Takashi Fujino of Ikimono Architects, experiments with the limits between inside and outside. This is a reoccurring theme among many of Ikimono Architects’s projects. Tradeoffs are enviable in a building of this kind, such as having to use an umbrella to access to the bathroom when it is raining and the hassles that come with an earth floor. The payoffs come in the form of being able to grow plants inside through the floor, gaze at the clouds and stars, listen to the sound of the rain and smell the scent of spring flowers.
Location: Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
General Contractors: Kenchikusha Shiki Inc.
Landscaping: Atsuo Ota / ACID NATURE 0220
Structural Engineer: Akira Suzuki / ASA
Roof: Safety glass shatterproof
Structure: Reinforced concrete
Use: Office + Residential
Exterior: Reinforced concrete
Project Area: 177.18 sqm (site), 61.93 sqm (building area), 61.93 sqm (floor area)
Design Year: 2007-2010
Project Year: 2010-2011
Photographs: Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects
So Stefanie, I don't know this building, but I would agree that is interesting as sculpture. But where do we draw the line between architecture s object and architecture as a space that supports human lives? I am troubled when these are conflated and we think that because something is aesthetically appealing that is enough.
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