Final Wooden House / Sou Fujimoto
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location: Kumamoto, Japan
Project Team: Hiroshi Kato
Structural Consultant: Jun Sato Structural Engineers
Lighting: Hirohito Totsune
Contractor: Tanakagumi Construction
Design Year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2007-2008
Site Area: 89,3 sqm
Constructed Area: 15,13 sqm
Photographer: Iwan Baan
I thought of making an ultimate wooden architecture. It was conceived by just mindlessly stacking 350mm square.
Lumber is extremely versatile. In an ordinary wooden architecture, lumber is effectively differentiated according to functions in various localities precisely because it is so versatile. Columns, beams, foundations, exterior walls, interior walls, ceilings, floorings, insulations, furnishings, stairs, window frames, meaning all. However, I thought if lumber is indeed so versatile then why not create architecture by one rule that fulfills all of these functions. I envisioned the creation of new spatiality that preserves primitive conditions of a harmonious entity before various functions and roles differentiated.
There are no separations of floor, wall, and ceiling here. A place that one thought was a floor becomes a chair, a ceiling, a wall from various positions. The floor levels are relative and spatiality is perceived differently according to one’s position. Here, people are distributed three-dimensionally in the space. This is a place like an amorphous landscape with a new experience of various senses of distances. Inhabitants discover, rather than being prescribed, various functionalities in these convolutions.
This bungalow no longer fits the category of wooden architecture. If wooden architecture is merely something made from wood, then wood itself surpasses the architectural procedures to directly become a “place where people live” in this bungalow. It is of an existence akin to primitive conditions before architecture. Rather than just a new architecture, this is a new origin, a new existence.
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Recien estoy llegando del World Architecture Festival y les comento que la casa de Sou Fujimoto ganó el premio en la categoría de “Housing Projects”.
Pueden ver los otros ganadores aca:
http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/news-detail.cfm?newsId=44
Saludos
Nice concept…this dude is cool.
nice “concept” house, but:
not a shelther so not a house
a lot of wasted material, energy and non-sustainability.
it’s a curious one design, local and nothing more
with a lot of aesthetics, artitic qualities
with regards
gerson
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gorgeous exterior, however, the interior’s reminiscence of cave like dwelling looks to be a hard hat environment…conceptual and uninviting but nonetheless sensual and beautiful.
Would benefit from some cushions…
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Sou Fujimoto is probably one of the most talented and propositive architects of nowadays, we should followed Sou´s future work,
Congratulations for the WAF award!
very nice space maipulation, hope to meet you and talk about this.
JD
sculpture
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to gerson: “not a shelther so not a house”
-If you look closely you’ll see that those openings are covered with glass, therefore it is an enclosed shelter and therefore a house…
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[...] no es un mega yenga ni un tetris llevado a la vida real. Se trata de nada más ni nada menos que la Final Wooden House, diseñada por el arquitecto japonés Sou Fujimoto, quien lleva las tipologías de vivienda al [...]
[...] es un mega yenga ni un tetris llevado a la vida real. Se trata de nada más ni nada menos que la Final Wooden House, diseñada por el arquitecto japonés Sou Fujimoto, quien lleva las tipologías de vivienda al [...]
[...] una casa constituida por bloques de maderas, con una aspecto muy similar a un gigante yenga. La Final Wooden House ha sido premiada por el World Architecture Festival con el premio a la mejor [...]
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this house is amazing!
I love that someone like Suo Fujimoto has really captured the true Japanese aesthetic concept of bringing nature as close to our homes as possible…
Hey I search google more and found the plan of house on this website. Really great that you share this plan.
Thanks
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Hi. Interesting work and photos, especially at night. But…a little bit claustrofobic I think))Very good place in nature. I wish you a lot of inovation concepts.
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[...] this week but we can’t leave it out. From AT. More photos below, from Flickr, DesignBoom and ArchDaily. Fujimoto’s idea was to build a small, primitive bunglow that would highlight the versatility [...]
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can you say JENGA!
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This awesome. Jenga, for sure. Great use of space with in the “treehouse”. Would make a fun place to “get away” to read or hang out with friends.
I love it, totally off beat.
Absolutely fascinating, exciting, rich, fantastic Jack-o-lantern__ can’t imagine roof glazing detail.
I am an architecture student, i had exactly the same design and concept for one of the projects, my professor just didn’t approve it! here goes the difference being an “architect” and an “architecture student”!
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