HOUSE H. Sou Fujimoto Architects. 藤本壮介建築設計事務所
12/12/2011.
Sou Fujimoto Arquitectos.[TOKYO] Japan
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Last Thursday we announced in scoop, the appointment of two Spanish architects to RIBA International Fellowships. In the list were P. Mangado and C. Ferrater, and it is noteworthy that Japanese had 3. The new generation of Japanese architects have focused the attention of all eyes and moved the center of the lens from Europe to the Far East. To mark the RIBA appointments go taking some of the works of those selected, including the first day of Sou Fujimoto.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
Floor plans. House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
Sections. House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
Elevations. House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
House H, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Photography © Iwan Baan.
A dwelling for a family of three located in a residential district in Tokyo. To live in a multi-storey dwelling in a dense metropolis like Tokyo is somehow similar to living in a large tree. Within a large tree, there exists few large branches, of which endows numerous qualities; -pleasant places to sit, sleep, and present places for discourse.
While these branches are individual places under protection, they are simultaneously equipped with mutual relationships that allow one to sense the presence of one another across each branch. A network of relationships interwoven across many places throughout the branches. A proposal for a landscape where the duality of opposites; individuality and holistic co-exist through relationship.
Photography © Iwan Baan
The character of this residence is that it is covered / riddled by holes. The walls, ceilings, and the floors are blatantly punctured and are interlocked three-dimensionally. Through these apertures, one is able to see and feel through to the spaces adjacent, above and below oneself, and furthermore, beyond what is clearly defined.
Through these apertures, staircases of varying angles are affixed, suggesting the access within this geometric tree. The rich spatiality conceived here consists of both an imaginative three-dimensionality of an Escher image, or, an otherness imagined in a scenery of people of the future beginning to inhabit a majestic ruin.
Photography © Iwan Baan
Using artificial materials and geometric order, the succession of voids in connectivity engenders a greater field of relationships. This concept of a residence akin to a large tree, with a tree-like ambiguity in its connectivity with the exterior, propounds a prototypical dwelling/city of the future.
Photography © Iwan Baan
CREDITS
Architects.- Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location.- Tokyo, Japan
Principal in charge.- Sou Fujimoto
Project Team.- Hiroshi Kato
Site area.- 72.28 sqm
Building area.- 50.52 sqm
Total floor area.- 124.87 sqm
Completion.- 2008
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SOU FUJIMOTO
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan on August 4, 1971. In 1994 he graduated in architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He established his own architecture studio, the agency Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and since 2007 a professor at Kyoto University.
He was first noticed in 2005 when he won the prestigious AR – international Architectural Review Awards in the Young architect’s category, a prize that he garnered for three consecutive years, and the Top Prize in 2006.
In 2008, he was invited to jury these very AR Awards. The same year he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) prize and the highest recognition from the World Architecture Festival, in the Private House section. In 2009, the magazine Wallpaper* accorded him their Design Award. Sou Fujimoto published “Primitive Future” in 2008, the year’s best-selling architectural text. His architectural design, consistently searching for new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.
Sou Fujimoto became the youngest architect to design the annual summer pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2013, and has won several awards, notably a Golden Lion for the Japan Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and The Wall Street Journal Architecture Innovator Award in 2014.
Photographer: David Vintiner
