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The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)

July 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

Built in Tokyo in 1966, the Tower house by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma is developed around a staircase which distributes its six levels. The triangular plot is only 20 square meters and the total surface of the house is 65 square meters providing the building proportions of a micro skyscraper. “When completed it was the “skyscraper” of Jingumae, nowadays it is a miniature house“. (Takamitsu Azuma daughter).

Every room is piled on top of the other making a continuous living space with no doors for the architect’s family. Outside and inside, the Tower House is in raw concrete with a visible horizontal texture which contributes to underline the stacking floors.

 

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Images via Archeyes, except elevations: drawings by Vincent Dorfmann

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Comments

  1. Achla says

    July 24, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    Need sting legs to go up and down single bathroom is all the way at the top!

  2. Achla says

    July 24, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    Strong not sting

  3. Spiro says

    August 4, 2016 at 11:35 pm

    and you really wouldn’t want to fall down them stairs!

  4. archipicture says

    December 23, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    unfortunately the presence of this amzing building is destroyed by the newer constructions…

  5. fosco lucarelli says

    December 26, 2016 at 11:01 am

    we have just been there last summer: this house used to be the tallest building when it was built and today is the lowest one!

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    […] House by Takamitsu Azuma was built in Osaka in 1969, a few years after the completion of the Tower House in Tokyo. The principles behind this project are similar to those of the Tower House, with all […]

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