Tomohiro Hata Architect & Associates

Belly House

Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano

BELLY HOUSE

Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

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Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

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Toshiyuki Yano

AREA
43.0 m²

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Kyoto, Japan

CATEGORY
Houses

This project is a house in Kyoto, Japan. There are many laws to restrict externals and the volume of construction.

Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano

- The outside wall should be right-angled, the decided material and color.

- The roof and Eaves should be decided inclination, shape, material, and color.

Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano

- The volume should be done the set backing below the decided height.

So, we led the maximum package from the decided law, and inserted the volume like a large tree in that. In this house, people live while climbing up and down the large tree on inside , come and go in the places like the cave in the trunk and like the terrace that extends to surroundings of the trunk.

Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano

That is just like that small animals in the forest live while freely coming and going in the lair in the trunk and the surroundings.

 The lifestyle is not a past lifestyle only moving from the room to the room by the necessity

Suitable for animals instinct of human beings because the family can pick out comfortable whereabouts and the sense of distance according to the act , the bystander person, the season and time.

Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano
Belly House
© Toshiyuki Yano


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Floor Plan 2
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