The famous capsule of House K by the architect-metabolist Kise Kurokawa is available for rent

Architecture lovers can book for the night the newly restored capsule "House K" by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the last existing buildings of Japanese metabolism.

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Kisho Kurokawa built in 1972 the main building of the Japanese architecture of metabolism — the Nakagin capsule tower — in a busy area of Tokyo, and hid the capsule House by the end of the year among the forests of Nagano Prefecture. It was the architect's own house, which did not change its architectural tastes in everyday life. Despite the fundamental difference in location, both projects are designed according to the same architectural logic, including an element of a "permanent block" to which individual modules can be attached.

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The son of the famous architect, Mikio Kurokawa, raised funds for the reconstruction of the house, and his Mirai Kurokawa design studio, together with the Toshihiko Suzuki laboratory, restored the building to its original condition. Now the capsule "House K" is available for visiting and renting (via the Airbnb website), and anyone can take a dip in the surroundings of nature in one of the masterpieces of metabolism.

The tea room uses traditional Japanese style and sliding shoji screens, contrasting with retro-futuristic elements of the living room.

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The capsule house consists of a central core and four attached module rooms. On the ground floor there is a living room and a tea room, and on the second floor there are bedrooms and a kitchen. The facades of the capsule are sheathed with sheets of Korten steel and complemented with domed windows that overlook the forest.

The living room is completely white — from floor to ceiling, in addition to restored furniture in the spirit of retro-futurism, it is equipped with restored lamps with control panels from the 1970s.

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The bright kitchen — the only capsule room with a non—circular window - looks at the treetops.

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