Due to the circumstances in which it developed, Sou Fujimoto developed a great interest in nature and everything that surrounds him. The architect is in a constant search between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity, since the physical limits are supposed to dissolve visually in his architecture.
“Today we are facing global problems, problems: natural catastrophes, earthquakes, climate change and pandemic. I think architecture will be more connected to nature in the future. This means that we reflect on architecture as nature and, at the same time, we consider nature as architecture".
Sou Fujimoto.
The exhibition includes elements from both worlds, both the natural and the architectural, living in harmony. "Stacked" houses with associations to mountains, structures that follow the shape of trees, or roofs on which small forests grow are some of the elements that we can find if we visit the presentation.
L‘Arbre Blanc by Sou Fujimoto. Photograph by Iwan Baan.
Sou Fujimoto has followed this architectural philosophy throughout his career and we can see it in different projects he has carried out, such as the L'Arbre Blanc tree-shaped residential tower (2019) in Montpellier, where he combines functionality with a design similar to the origami. Another example to highlight is the House of Music (2022) in Budapest, the transparent building blends with nature, resulting in a relationship between users and organic architecture.
"Primitive Future—Everything Is Circulating" is dedicated to twelve projects already completed or in the planning process. The exhibition is divided into two rooms, in the first room we find twelve films that provide us with information about the design process of the typologies and multifaceted forms. The reference to Fujimoto's philosophy is presented in the second room with a large installation that expresses the notion of a connected world based on twelve floating wire objects, which can be seen or read depending on the point of view.
L‘Arbre Blanc by Sou Fujimoto. Photograph by Iwan Baan.
Sou Fujimoto has followed this architectural philosophy throughout his career and we can see it in different projects he has carried out, such as the L'Arbre Blanc tree-shaped residential tower (2019) in Montpellier, where he combines functionality with a design similar to the origami. Another example to highlight is the House of Music (2022) in Budapest, the transparent building blends with nature, resulting in a relationship between users and organic architecture.
"Primitive Future—Everything Is Circulating" is dedicated to twelve projects already completed or in the planning process. The exhibition is divided into two rooms, in the first room we find twelve films that provide us with information about the design process of the typologies and multifaceted forms. The reference to Fujimoto's philosophy is presented in the second room with a large installation that expresses the notion of a connected world based on twelve floating wire objects, which can be seen or read depending on the point of view.
