![House H / Sou Fujimoto Architects - Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5016/e46a/28ba/0d23/5b00/02de/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414286570)
-
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
- Area: 125 m²
- Year: 2008
-
Photographs:Iwan Baan
-
Manufacturers: Dornbracht
Text description provided by the architects. 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.
![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5016/e456/28ba/0d23/5b00/02d6/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414286583)
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.
![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5016/e45a/28ba/0d23/5b00/02d8/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414286587)
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.
![House H / Sou Fujimoto Architects - Handrail, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5016/e462/28ba/0d23/5b00/02db/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414286576)
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.
![House H / Sou Fujimoto Architects - Sink, Countertop, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5016/e45d/28ba/0d23/5b00/02d9/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414286581)
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.
![House H / Sou Fujimoto Architects - Windows, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5016/e468/28ba/0d23/5b00/02dd/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414286572)