Back in 1995, Oliver Kruse together with Katsuhito Nishikawa planned and built the One-Man House on the Rocket Station, Hombroich.
A single-cell guesthouse whose simplicity of form, clarity of function, ideal proportions and such structural details as the verandah with its plain wooden posts supporting a raised, flat, projecting roof anticipate the architecture of the Children's Island Hombroich, which was Kruse's other building in Hombroich.
The unity of the one-man house is underpinned on the one hand by the membrane character of the roof and, on the other, by the fact that each room, as a single unit forming part of the whole, expresses itself, quite literally, outwards. The one-man house is, as it were, a cell in a state of existence immediately preceding division. Cell division has clearly taken place in the case of the nursery school.…
Back in 1995, Oliver Kruse together with Katsuhito Nishikawa planned and built the One-Man House on the Rocket Station, Hombroich.
A single-cell guesthouse whose simplicity of form, clarity of function, ideal proportions and such structural details as the verandah with its plain wooden posts supporting a raised, flat, projecting roof anticipate the architecture of the Children's Island Hombroich, which was Kruse's other building in Hombroich.
The unity of the one-man house is underpinned on the one hand by the membrane character of the roof and, on the other, by the fact that each room, as a single unit forming part of the whole, expresses itself, quite literally, outwards. The one-man house is, as it were, a cell in a state of existence immediately preceding division. Cell division has clearly taken place in the case of the nursery school.
Kruse and Nishikawa used standard-sized plywood panels to build the One-Man House.
