Ovaless House

Outline
It has a plane of elliptical courtyards arranged diagonally swinging in a rectangle. The courtyard is cut into an ellipse with a wide open sky, which can be turned into a water garden or a stone garden by supplying and draining water. Inside, 36 steel ribs sandwiched between laminated bamboo ribs radiate from the elliptical ring of steel pipes to form a continuous atrium space.
Location
  • Fukushima
Journal
Jutakutokushu October 2009 issue
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