Climbing the Walls. Literally.
This snazzy bit of urban architecture was created for a couple of outdoors loving city dwellers in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Designed by Japanese architecture practice be-fun aka Tsuyoshi Shindo and Kohei Iwasaki and Tota Abe from EANA, their brief was simple: bring the outdoors, indoors. I think I’m safe in saying that they have achieved that goal by building a vertical living room (climbing wall) in the upper portion of the house. Considering the plot is only 36m² with no exterior views the design team have managed to draw light into the building through a run of glass sky-lights circulating the rooftop. Meanwhile down in the basement the adventurous clients can take a shower in the rather opaque sunken bathroom or pop up a tent in the lower storage area.
Check out be-fun design’s interesting architecture portfolio online here.
All images copyright Hiroyuki Hirai
