Over the past 20 years, 150 tree houses have been built to fulfill a dream.

Woken up by a bird in the morning

Look at the stars in the tree at night

A tree house like this

Are you staying?

……

-Uncle Tree House-

In the morning

With a ray of sunlight from the cracks in the leaves

And chirping birds and gurgling streams

"Uncle Treehouse" Kobayashi came down from his tree house.

Over the past 20 years, 150 tree houses have been built.

It is called "the first person in the Japanese tree house".

But more often than not

He still likes to be affectionately called by the children-Uncle Treehouse.

There is no advanced design

There is no extravagant decoration.

"A good tree house makes you want to go up there.

Take a fresh look at the world. "

He grinned with a childlike smile.

In the morning

Listen to the birds sing.

Watch the squirrel jump.

At night

Look at the sunset at dusk

Look at the starry sky

We who have been in the city for a long time

How long has it been since you saw something like this?

He felt that the tree house belonged to nature.

"the real tree house.

Look out the window

You can see the relaxing forest and sea. "

Uncle Treehouse's hometown is Yidou, the hometown of hot springs.

He used to have a job at Tokyo TV.

But "the crowded streets of Tokyo make me feel stressed.

I miss the mountains and seas of my hometown very much. "

This is the reason why he built a tree house in the mountains.

Fifteen years ago, Mr. Kobayashi's first tree house appeared in front of the shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo, at a cost of just 500000 yen. Fifteen years later, he still runs a coffee shop, Hideaway, selling organic coffee, green life magazines and self-designed eco-friendly T-shirts.

From then on

He found something worth doing all his life.

From rough surreal huts to square volumes.

They all share a common concept.

Thanksgiving natural fantasy space.

I haven't studied any professional design.

Based entirely on a hobby.

And the love of nature.

He built dream huts for people in the woods.

Why did you build a tree house?

That's what he always asks.

There is a writer's desire to be "self-sufficient".

Kobayashi built a tree house in Koguiren Village, Okinawa.

A mother wants to fulfill an unfinished wish for her dead daughter.

He built a tree house in his personal courtyard in Mitsuizawa City.

There are also such entrusters.

Ask him to build a "gift for grandson".

He always builds tree houses for his children.

Into the elements of more children.

A wooden slide is designed.

And specially pull out slender hollowed-out on each step.

To make it easier for children to grasp while climbing.

He also prefers to build treehouses for public welfare organizations.

After the 2011 tsunami

He built tree houses for children who lost their families.

Soothe the wounds of their hearts.

He believes that the tree house can not only dispel the boundary between man and nature.

It also has the power to warm people's hearts.

His ideal tree house

It was built in Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Up to 26 meters high

Now it's a dating place for lovers:

"in this tree house,

The birdsong comes from under your feet. "

In March 2014, he built the world's most luxurious tree house, Kusukusu, in Rehai, southern Japan.

"perch" in a 300-year-old camphor tree, the structure of the tree house is independent and does not rely on the trunk to force.

The design team located all the tree trunks and even branches through three-dimensional laser scanning, and then designed a metal frame to skillfully avoid the tree trunks and accomplish the purpose of supporting the tree house.

The perimeter of the tree house

Some supporting facilities have also been built for tourists and children to play.

At the top of the tree house is a space similar to a teahouse.

It must be extremely cozy to have a spacious terrace.

And this brings people back to nature.

Feel the natural way of life

That's what he admires.

To him, the tree is his friend for life.

He is familiar with more than 400 kinds of trees

Before every tree house is built,

He has to carefully surround the big tree and survey it carefully.

It does not affect the growth of big trees.

Draw materials on the basis of land

A tree house he built for Guangzhou

It uses local nanmu.

Built between the banyan trees.

There will also be a "tree god worship ceremony".

"erect a building on a tree

There is no doubt that it has an effect on the growth of trees.

They may not want to be done this way. "

He has his own persistence.

From the design of the artwork to the completion of the work

Regardless of climate, temperature, humidity

Every step under this foot

All decisions were made after careful consideration.

Why build a house on a tree?

He always asks the people who asked him to build the tree house.

To him, the tree house is not a building.

It's a dream of being friends with nature.

Shizuoka Kobayashi, a master tree house architect born in 1957 in Shizuoka, Japan, graduated from the Art Department of the University of Japan.

After meeting Peter Nelson, the first person in the world's treehouse in 1994, he decided to build a treehouse in Japan. He is also the only Japanese who is invited to attend WTC (World Treehouse Conference), an international event held in Oregon every year. Japan Tree House Network (Japan Treehouse Network) was launched in 2000, and Tree House Studio (Tree House Creation) was established in 2005.

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