Skyward Thatched House by Yukihiro Akama
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Skyward Thatched House by Yukihiro Akama.
A small wooden house, designed and handcrafted by Yukihiro Akama. Yukihiro works from a furniture workshop in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
‘Treehouses’ runs from the 27 May until the 30 June.
Please note all treehouse purchases will be available for collection or delivery after this time.
Size: Height 19cm x Width 7cm x Depth 5cm
Material: Oak.
Each house is carved from a single piece of wood. Each piece begins with a hand drawn sketch on an off-cut of oak, walnut, sapele, iroko or maple. The wood often dictates the starting point for the design, with the knots or grain of the wood guiding where Akama cuts and carves.
Akama uses traditional Japanese tools, creating rough surfaces to sit against smooth, and finishing areas with a blow torch prior to polishing and oiling each piece.
Originally from Japan, Akama studied architecture at Tohoku University of Art and Design, in Yamagata, Japan and began his working career as an architect.
Feeling a need to create physical objects using traditional tools with his hands, Yukihiro began assisting a carpenter building traditional timber framed houses, enjoying the process and environment this enabled him to work in, alongside working as a practising architect.
After his move to the UK in 2011, he was inspired to make small buildings based of vernacular houses from his travels around Asia and interesting buildings seen in the UK.