House with slide - Japanese living "house mound"

House with slide («house with a hill") - a three-storey house, built by the architectural studio Level architects for families with several children. A unique feature of the unusual housing has become a real children's slide, which is used as an alternative ladder portal for young pokoleniya.

Gorka continuously encircles the structure of the minimalist Japanese house on the perimeter, only in two places in the developing steps by which adults can move from one floor to another, without the help of a cheerful child's play. Alternative "portal" provides an easy access to almost every room, mainly situated in the center of doma.

Unusual volume of put a foyer, living room, library, playground, children's room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Since the space, which houses the slide-staircase takes up most of the perimeter of the house, some of the rooms receive daylight through skylights and elaborate system of interaction of holes, the transparent glass walls and, of course, artificial lighting.

Like many owners of modern Japanese housing House with slide masters do not mind minimalist architecture, devoid of large front windows. Has already become a tradition, the decision lay with double walls, it is advisable for noisy and crowded densely built cities in Japan in which your own home may be the only "oasis" of tranquility, privacy and the privacy of private zhizni.