Playhouse: 3 Residential Interiors Designed for Maximum Fun
Typically, you?d find a playhouse in a child’s bedroom or out in the yard, but that wasn?t good enough for these imaginative parents, who went so far as to commission architects to make their children’s dreams come true. Instead of homes, they asked for oversized playhouses, complete with slides, towers, nets, and ball pits!
Jerry House by Onion
A couple with four sons built a vacation home on Thailand?s Cha Am Beach, and it?s basically one big indoor playground. Functionality and easy circulation are the top priorities for most construction projects, but in this case, the architects had to consider fun over everything else. The family wanted space for running, climbing, hanging, hiding, and falling down. When faced with this task, Onion Architects found inspiration in an unlikely place: Jerry, from Tom & Jerry. The architects seemed particularly drawn to the idea of creating a wacky, maze-like building that one might expect to find in a show like Tom and Jerry. For this reason, Onion focused on linking the home?s rooms together and creating a cartoonish ?Mobius Strip? loop. One piece on the Jerry House explains: ?Central to Onion?s concern is the linkage of passageways. Onion adds an extra set of vertical circulations at the central hallway to the existing staircases and ramps. This space is now called the ?main living hall.? Onion uses the customized nets to build five layers of horizontal planes of different slopes, heights, and sizes.?
The home?s ?pas...
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