Visitors to Vitra\u2019s Weil am Rhein campus this year will find a new arrival among the furniture brand\u2019s park of architectural treasures. Standing temple-like in a greenfield site next to buildings by Jean Prouv\u00e9 and Buckminster Fuller, the Umbrella House by Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara has a quiet but compelling...
Visitors to Vitra’s Weil am Rhein campus this year will find a new arrival among the furniture brand’s park of architectural treasures. Standing temple-like in a greenfield site next to buildings by Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, the Umbrella House by Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara has a quiet but compelling presence.
Surrounded by a circle of gravel and approached via a single paved pathway, the single-storey house stands serenely on a square platform raised off the ground and topped by a pyramid-shaped roof – Shinohara was the first to transfer elements like this, previously only seen on temple complexes, into residential architecture.
Inside, the visible umbrella structure of the roof makes clear the house’s namesake. It spans the interior volume at 4m in height and is intended to make the small floor area appear larger.
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