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Wood inspires Fujimoto Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Shelter

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Located in Kumamoto, Japan, is a curious structure from Sou Fujimoto Architects.

The unique house is sited in an area of great natural beauty.

The building looks as artless as a child’s play with blocks.

According to the architect, it was conceived by just mindlessly stacking 350mm square.

Across a rope bridge from some equally curious buildings, the structure seems strangely appropriate.

At night, it is lit up from within unevenly like a jack’o’lantern

Its guiding principle was the creation of a harmonious entity before various functions and roles differentiated.

It is of an existence akin to primitive conditions before architecture.

The floor levels are relative and spatiality is perceived differently according to one’s position.

There are no separations of floor, wall, and ceiling.

A place that one thought was a floor becomes a chair, a ceiling, a wall from various positions.

Rather than just a new architecture, says the architect, this is a new origin, a new existence.