Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide. Outside In House: Lively Courtyard Brings Nature Indoors. Where most architecture strives to be beautiful in some way, it has been argued that man-made structures can never hope to match the loveliness of nature.
This house in a residential district in Tokyo was designed by Japanese architecture firm mamm-design to embrace the best of nature and manufactured design. Starting on the exterior with a slight cantilever over a ground-level terrace, the Minna-no-ie house seems greater than the extremely small 4.5 meter-by-12 meter lot on which it sits. The entrance of the home is defined by floor-to-ceiling glass doors which connect the interior and exterior in a tangible yet transparent way. Upon stepping into the home, visitors are immediately greeted with a live tree growing in the interior courtyard. Clad in slate-colored brick flooring that bring to mind an outdoor courtyard, the first level contains a modest sunken kitchen and a dining area directly beneath the tree. Steel Bridge Cantilever Home: Suburban Living on the Edge. If living in the suburbs could ever be considered edgy, it would have to be in an unusual, unique and uncanny house such as this one.
Odd angles abound, mixed materials define variegated spaces and above it all looms an incredible cantilevered bridge supporting gathering, living, cooking and eating spaces designed by Maddison Architects with views out in all directions. Sleeping, bathing and more private programmatic activities are contained in concrete masonry section that is nearly the conceptual opposite of the bridge portion – buried, thick, heavy and solid. This section contrasts with the wide-open windowed expanses of the upper level, pierced holes at strategic points let in light and allow outside peaks only selectively. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time. Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight. Welcome to Flickr! Www.flickr.com/photos/32646773@N07/7328684922/in/contacts/ Wen2. Discover Projects.