BDES 2026
Yuki lin 450015544 hungchih wu 440523640
Raffaello Rosselli
House O Sou Fujimoto
House O Designed by Sou Fujimoto Built in 2007 Locatied at Chikuracho Kotsuto, Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Japan Total house area is 128,94 m2
“A weekend house for a couple located on a rocky coast two hours drive from Tokyo. They plan to settle down in this place in the future. The site is a rocky outcrop facing the Pacific Ocean with approaches sloping down to the water. The characteristic of the plan, imagined like the branches of a tree, is a continuous one room. All the required spaces – entrance, living area, dining area, kitchen, bedroom, Japanese-style room, study room and bathroom – are arranged in this continuous one room. “
by Sou Fujimoto
Floor Plan
“The request from the client is for a “house with feeling of ocean nearby”. I thought of creating “various oceans”: panoramic view of the ocean, ocean looking from recesses of a cave, enclosed ocean and place projected above the ocean. Oriented in different directions, you can find various views of the ocean as you walk through the house. The living area, bedroom and bathroom, each have their own unique relationship with the ocean. You could say the house is akin to a walking trail along the coast; you could happen on a panoramic view, sometimes feel the ocean at your back or find the ocean through a small gap. Comfortable spaces are scattered along this trail. Interminable spaces continuing over and over without any clear borders.”
by Sou Fujimoto
Section & Elevation
Sketches
“ I wanted the architecture to be primitive, between natural and man-made.�
by Sou Fujimoto
Exploded Drawing
“I wanted to create a feeling of looking out from the recesses of a cave,”
by Sou Fujimoto
Site: 323 Abercrombie St.
Site analysis
Yellow Lines represent the direction buildings are opened towards
Vehicle road Pedestrian road Park, Green areas Church Schools, Universities Housings Restau Restaurants, Cafeterias Construction site Carpark Railway zone Commercial buildings School zone Residential zone Inaccessible zone
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The tendency of the route pedestrians in different time, with roughly 2 hours increments have been recorded to map who occupies the site in what ways.
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this is based on a true story.
Our clients are based on a real life story in Vietnam, Ho Van Lang, 42, and his 82-year-old father, they were found living in a tree house for 40 years.
During the Vietnam War, a mine explosion destroyed their house and killed his wife and two of his sons, the father decided to bring his kid with him and ran into the forest. They were living in a hand built tree house, lifted several meters off the ground. The loincloths they wore are made of bark and homemade axe are used to chop down firewood. The foods they eat were corn they grown, fruits and cassava roots in the forest.
Our target is to design a modern living space for them to fit back in the society, we decided to use bamboos as our primary material throughout the design, so we are able to create the forest atmosphere, furthermore, the bamboos also acts as wall and roof, not only for decoration purposes. Few elements that we create are the grid structure, indoor spaces without physical walls, and the spaces lifted off the ground; for the grid structure, they are the focus point of our design, as well as the connection between the indoor space and the outdoor areas, having the grids are the pathways for them, recalls the experience of climbing around in the forest. Moreover, the bedroom spaces that we lifted few meters above the ground, this idea paralleled with the tree house they built. In the same time, we decided to reduce the use of prefabricated materials for the house. We choose to plant fresh bamboos around the site as a barrier from the public, and use dried bamboos to build the grid structures. We try to observe everything from what they used to in the forest, and transform them into a more contemporary design.
Sketches
The bamboo house
Floor Plan
Final Design the grid