Floating on a fantastical plane A Japanese Manga Artist's House
In a narrow plot in Tokyo, 'A Japanese Manga Artist’s House,' with a sloping facade, elem Read more..
It is perhaps not an exaggeration, then, to say that architecture in manga and anime is a way of 'world-building,' where the duplicity of the real and fictional environment finds a middle ground. Drawing on this concept, Japanese architect Tan Yamanouchi along with AWGL, Tokyo, envisioned 'A Japanese Manga Artist’s House' in Tokyo, Japan, as “a building that floats a few centimetres above our daily lives…to ensure that the dwelling is still tied to our tangible daily life but evokes a sense of fictional narrative.”
