... Off the wall: described as a hill on a house, this home is more than a little.Despite its distance from the city, Mount Fuji dominates Tokyo's horizon, both in the mind's-eye of its inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. and with its physical presence when visible on a clear day. Fittingly, when designing this modest house on a typically cramped Tokyo site, the architect chose to create Fuji in microcosm mi·cro·cosm n. A small, representative system having analogies to a larger system in constitution, configuration, or development: "He sees the auto industry as a microcosm of the U.S. : an unreachable subject of contemplation. As such this house focuses on a white hill that cuts deep into the centre of the plan: a shapely shape·ly adj. shape·li·er, shape·li·est 1. Having a distinct shape. 2. Having a pleasing shape. shape mass that can be sensed in all the rooms, but never reached. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This urban house is surrounded by tall buildings on three sides. To the east it faces a narrow street. The question of how to bring light inside while shutting out views inspired the architect to develop an abstract scenery within an enclosed manmade environment. Around the perimeter, high concrete walls block views from neighbours. Within this a crater-like courtyard has been excavated, bound to the east by a large white inclined roof: an unblemished surface stretching to the eastern sky from eye level, reflecting light into adjacent spaces. In plan the crater crater, circular, bowl-shaped depression on the earth's surface. (For a discussion of lunar craters, see moon.) Simple craters are bowl-shaped with a raised outer rim. Complex craters have a raised central peak surrounded by a trough and a fractured rim. creates a triangular void that increases in size and eccentricity eccentricity, in astronomy: see orbit. Eccentricity Addams Family weird family, presented in grotesque domesticity. [TV: Terrace, I, 29] Boynton, Nanny travels with set of Encyclopaedia Britannica as it rises against the slanted slant v. slant·ed, slant·ing, slants v.tr. 1. To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope: perimeter walls perimeter wall n → mur m d'enceinte perimeter wall n → muro di cinta . On the first floor, the living room occupies the space within the hill, rising 6.8 metres in height and extending from a dining space visible across the courtyard. On the upper levels, two bedrooms overlook the hill's west face. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Moving through the spaces, the hill becomes the principal point of orientation as part of a-unique foreground scenery, the effect of which diminishes the impact of any glimpses to apparently distant neighbouring buildings when seen against the building's crooked horizon. Remarkably this spacious home is only 78sqm. R. G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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