Cool Treehouse, Japan-Style

Terunobu Fujimori, a professor of architecture at the University of Tokyo, built his boyhood dream hideaway, a teahouse on stilts, in the bottom of his father’s garden.

It doesn’t look particularly safe, especially considering that the first thing I’d think of when building a tree house is to place in the fork of a tree. But then, this isn’t a tree house, and the unstable, stilt look is probably why this is so cool!

The most outstanding feature however, has got to be the little look out platform, which seems to be strategically placed to stay in the shade all day.

Terunobu’s teahouse, completed in Spring, 2004.

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