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A Clifftop “Walking Trail” House from Sou Fujimoto

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The 38-year- old Japanese architect, Sou Fujimoto recently won the Taiwan Tower competition with a visionary example of futuristic biomimicry.

He is carving a big name internationally as a protagonist of what he calls the “primitive future.”

In “House O” Fujimoto is working on – obviously – a much more intimate scale, but here too he is seeking out completely new geometric orders based on natural elements.

“I’m interested in creating a sort of situation in which human habitation develops around the idea of living inside a nest or cave,” Fujimoto says.

“A cave is just raw space, which people need to explore and find their own comfort within….a situation where people can use space creatively. I prefer cave-like unintentional space, something between nature and artefact.”

At each fold, the three metre wide section shifts to create greater depth and incident in plan.

He says this is like “living among clouds….a distinct boundary is nowhere to be found, except for a gradual change in the domain”.

“You could say that an ideal architecture is an outdoor space that feels like the indoors and an indoor space that feels like the outdoors”.

“In a nested structure, the inside is invariably the outside and vice versa.”

“I wanted to create a feeling of looking out from the recesses of a cave,” Fujimoto says.

Indeed, the ragged angles of the house, all glassed in on the view side – creates a path along one side of the house “akin to a walking trail along a coast.”

The resident/visitor could “happen by a panoramic view, sometimes feel the ocean at [their] back or find the ocean through a small gap.”

Via CubeMe