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Assignment to produce a creative saloon for prospective beauty-experts on the roof of 40 (or more)-year-old building located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

The roof was irregularly-shaped in accordance with building regulation. And on it, many kinds of equipment are scattered at random. What we did was roughly covering the roof with tough plates of western red cedar (2“6”).The cover protects the time-weakened equipment and waterproof layer, and what is more, creates a “landscape” which is like polygonal hill.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

In a mega city like Tokyo, natural landscape is totally covered up with buildings and scarcely be seen. What we see instead is latent “secondary landscape” formed with a series of building roof. Our project just brought everybody to realize this fact by this project.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

Architects are principally expected to build things on land. Oddly enough, on this particular occasion, we create a land on building

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.

© Mount Fuji Architects Studio . Pubblicata il 03 Dicembre 2010.