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Article: NAKED HOUSE.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Combining an innovative translucent membrane with a luminous, flexible internal realm populated by movable tatami rooms, Shigeru Ban's latest experimental dwelling is an object lesson in material and spatial invention.
This house in Kawagoe, north of Tokyo, forms part of Shigeru Ban's ongoing series of inventive dwellings. Designed for receptive, adventurous clients (not necessarily with large budgets), each advances a prototypical solution to the challenge of accommodating domestic life.
Here Ban's quest has led him to devise a house with a series of mobile rooms in a single shed-like volume, enclosed by milkily translucent walls. Ban describes it as ...