Comments on: Japan’s Modernist Spread House is an Elegant, Low-Impact Home with a Tree Growing Through It http://inhabitat.com/japans-modernist-spread-house-is-an-elegant-low-impact-home-with-a-tree-growing-through-it/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: CompassionIsTheSolution http://inhabitat.com/japans-modernist-spread-house-is-an-elegant-low-impact-home-with-a-tree-growing-through-it/comment-page-1/#comment-395647 CompassionIsTheSolution Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:33:40 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=433231#comment-395647 I loved the simplicity and flow of this home so in tune with the forest. Very beautiful. Regarding the kitchen: Is there a refrigerator? An oven? How do you make tea? Personally, I'd need a soft, nestlike chair couch/resting place. How about creating a 'nestlike' chair made of softened cedar bark or bark from local downed trees plus soft animal hair and lichen and moss to make a cushioned, gentle place for rest. Where currently is the bedding and bed/mattress/sleeping mat? Most importantly, where is the bathroom...or do you 'go outside?' Where/how do you shower/bathe? (is there a stream/water source of some kind close by? I loved the simplicity and flow of this home so in tune with the forest. Very beautiful. Regarding the kitchen: Is there a refrigerator? An oven? How do you make tea?
Personally, I’d need a soft, nestlike chair couch/resting place. How about creating a ‘nestlike’ chair made of softened cedar bark or bark from local downed trees plus soft animal hair and lichen and moss to make a cushioned, gentle place for rest.

Where currently is the bedding and bed/mattress/sleeping mat? Most importantly, where is the bathroom…or do you ‘go outside?’ Where/how do you shower/bathe? (is there a stream/water source of some kind close by?

]]> By: hobo http://inhabitat.com/japans-modernist-spread-house-is-an-elegant-low-impact-home-with-a-tree-growing-through-it/comment-page-1/#comment-395625 hobo Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:01:07 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=433231#comment-395625 A beautiful excercise, but would it feel welcoming after a hard week? A photo of the sleeping areas would have been helpful; I think I could just barely make out a pair of beds through the glass... A beautiful excercise, but would it feel welcoming after a hard week? A photo of the sleeping areas would have been helpful; I think I could just barely make out a pair of beds through the glass…

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