Hideyuki Nakayama's '2004' House
Our September Japan Style issue celebrates design influenced or inpired by Japanese culture. In conjunction with the issue, guest writer Cathelijne Nuijsink will be covering residential projects by the core of young architects presently working in Japan. Week 3: Hideyuki Nakayama.
When Hideyuki Nakayama first sits down to dream up a design, he takes a pencil to paper and starts sketching. With a single line, a blank sheet of paper becomes a spacious floor. He adds another line, erases a dash here and there and the space transforms in the blink of an eye. For "2004," a private residence amid a new residential development in Matsumoto, Japan, Nakayama started off with sketches of a girl sleeping on a blanket with a floor hovering above her. What began as an exercise in exploring spatial relationships through rudimentary sketches spiraled into a home that breaks with convention. Here, we take a look at this delightfully unconventional project.
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Good lord! Not a child-friendly house. One mis-step and down she goes!
This exercise in living art may lead to broken bones. I'd rather not suffer.
I will never complain again when my wife asks me to clean our windows.
I don't think this is functional at all. I would never live in a house so....dangerous. So cold.
Love it. Completely impractical for children, but what a creative space. I'd live there.
Nice spatial concept, but one missed step could result in death... It could use some railing perhaps.
The most incredible architectural experiment, the most impractical home.
Love it! Dada does Modernism. Simultaneously fun, and frightening. Anti-architecture more perverse even than Tanijiri's house in Fukawa!
This could only be built in a community with an extremely liberal Building Code.
" I'd feel a lot better about this if it gave the square footage e.g. 200 square feet ...
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