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Tree-ness house

Tree-ness house

This project is a complex building of houses and galleries built in Tokyo, Toshimaku.

One tree is organically integrated with a combination of parts having different characteristics, such as a trunk, a branch, and a leaf. As with tree, we tried to create an organic architecture that could be formed by a hierarchical combination of different parts such as plants / pleats (as openings) / concrete boxes.

While concrete boxes are stacked three-dimensionally, a main structure containing complicated voids is made. Then, open the windows with pleats in them, agitating the inside and outside, and at the same time create a place that fits with the physical sensation of the person. In addition, we set up planting around the pleats and create an organic whole like breathing in the surrounding environment like a tree.

We set up a calm environment such as bedrooms and a gallery inside of the box. On the other hand, the outside of the box becomes terraces,gardens, and the place surrounded by glass as living room and dining room.

Rather than focusing only the internal space of building, the entire space including the external space like the garden and the street is three-dimensionalized. I intended to create a futuristic and savage architecture that awakens human animal instincts in which the inside and outside are reversed multiple times.

 

Tree-ness house

  • Otsuka
  • Tokyo
  • Japan
Completion: 2017
Used materials
  • Metal
  • Concrete

Type of Building

Architect Office