Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata

This project is a complex building of houses and galleries built in Tokyo, Toshimaku. One tree is organically integrated with a combination of parts having different characteristics, such as a trunk, a branch, and a leaf.  As with the tree, we tried to create an organic architecture that could be formed by a hierarchical combination of different parts such as plants/pleats (as openings) / concrete boxes.

Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata
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  • architects: Akihisa Hirata
  • Location: 3 Chome−33−1, Minamiotsuka, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Vincent Hecht
  • Area: 331.38 m2

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