Yuji Tanabe Architects: This "Hovering Cabin" is located at an altitude of 1300 meters in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The site of "Hovering Cabin" is the garden of "Pettanco House 2", which was completed in 2018. The client is also a landscape designer, and the building is used as a "small local community center and his office". He also dreams of expanding it further and moving out of "Pettanco House 2" in the future. The small wooden space of about 10 m² is raised on a foundation like a single leg, and is cut off from the land on all four sides. The new relationship between the landscape and the building that is born from cutting the edge is important. In addition, the compact foundation directly leads to cost reduction in this area where the freezing depth is deep. The roof and exterior wall materials are siding materials made of local Japanese larch, which were also used in "Pettanco House 2". The roof base is galvalume corrugated sheet, and the exterior wall base is a highly durable waterproof sheet made in Germany. The roof and exterior wall were carefully constructed by the client himself.
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Yuji Tanabe Architects is based in Kamakura, about one hour by train from Tokyo (Kamakura was the capital of Japan about 800 years ago). Kamakura is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side, and has a rich natural environment and traditional buildings. The reason for setting up our office here is that we believe that living while observing and feeling the changes in nature on a daily basis, and the slow flow of time, which is different from the city, are important for exploring original designs.
