Moriyama House, Tokyo, Japan

Related people

Robert Livesey (was created by)
Ryue Nishizawa (architect)

Date

2004-2005;2002-2004

Description

This house is located in the suburbs of Tokyo. It is a neighborhood-scaled, flexible-format minimalist steel prefab compound for Yasuo Moriyama -- a very private individual with a powerful social bent -- and six rental tenants. Here, the architect Nishizawa explored the idea of fragmenting buildings into their constituent parts. Every room of the house is a seperate building -- even Moriyama's bath is a freestanding box.

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