T house / Sou Fujimoto

Nov 2008

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Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location: Gunma, Japan
Principal Use: Residence
Project Year: 2005
Structure material: Wood
Site Area: 144.47 sqm
Constructed Area: 90.82 sqm
Photographer: Daici Ano & Sou Fujimoto

Intoned Open-Plan : Architecture of “Distance”

Site is within a calm residential suburb in Maebashi, Gunma, JAPAN. Being a housing for a family of four, this is also a place to display contemporary artworks, clients collection.

Basically it is a one-room house. Though the plan is quite unique, being radially intonated, or bent, at several points. From the bent point are walls stretched towards the center of the architecture. Each spaces created between these walls have, thus, different depths and different extent of relation to other spaces. A wide range of diverse qualities of the spaces, such as composure, privacy and so on, are obtained.

Convoluted Cavern, Drawn with One Stroke

This house could be described as a primitive housing.

Tracing its history, creating architecture is none other than producing various disntance. For instance, a private room is a situation where the distance is long or solid, to be separated. On the contrary, being distant yet connected generates the expanse of a space. What we suggest here is, a new but primitive, simple architecture, which embraces diverse feeling of distance within its intoned shape.

Garden of Relationship

The house might be similar to alleys and Japanese garden. That is, steppingstones are usually placed at those alleyways, and the scenery keeps changing while one stepping across by the stones. Each one step renews relationship of things around. Wandering the garden and alleys, stopping here and there- experience there has a lot in common with those that can be gained in the house.

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: ground plan

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "T house / Sou Fujimoto" 29 Nov 2008. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/8876>

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Contemporary Art says:

You guys must get spikes for Sou Fujimoto posts since House N. I wish there were a few more photos of this project; it’s hard to get a good sense of the space.

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# November 29, 2008 at 19:33

Pierre says:

SF lectured in Oslo some months ago. I have the podcast.

http://www.bakgard.com

# November 30, 2008 at 09:03

Mike says:

The original diagram is so much more intreseting than the final result.

# December 1, 2008 at 17:53

Jay says:

I have to wonder what it’s like to be in the study room, though apart from that they did a pretty good job making usable spaces out of odd shapes. That could be useful for recording studio acoustics.

# December 3, 2008 at 14:19

Liam says: