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Static Quarry / Ikimono Architects

Christopher Henry — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Constructed solely out of concrete this design by Ikimono Architects serves as a multi-family dwelling. The various openings and closing allow a range of interactions between the residents, and create shifting moments of light.

House of Seven Gardens / Ikimono Architects

Christopher Henry — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Ikimono Architects' clients, with three small boys, pursued a protected house with privacy in a large vacant lot downtown. Ikimono Architects suggested a one-story house with inner courtyards. The end result is a house with a variety of 17 rooms (11:outside,6:inside).

Atelier Tenjinyama / Ikimono Architects

Christopher Henry — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

With an earth floor and a glass roof this building, design by Takashi Fujino of Ikimono Architects, experiments with the limits between inside and outside. This is a reoccurring theme among many of Ikimono Architects’s projects. Tradeoffs are enviable in a building of this kind, such as having to use an umbrella to access to the bathroom when it is raining and the hassles that come with an earth floor. The payoffs come in the form of being able to grow plants inside through the floor, gaze at the clouds and stars, listen to the sound of the rain and smell the scent of spring flowers.

Airy house / Ikimono Architects

Christopher Henry — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This part-café/part-house by Ikimono Architects revolves around the relationship between the outside and inside.