My interest in locating the works of architect Sou Fujimoto has developed into a minor obsession. It’s a perfect combination of my interests: architecture, internet search challenges, and Tokyo/Japan geography. It’s also very satisfying to see traffic on my blog related to Fujimoto. Two of my most popular posts are:.As I’ve remarked before, it can be surprisingly difficult to locate the addresses of private homes in Japan, even for architecturally significant works. I’ve never known if this is due to Japanese law or merely the result of cultural norms. I feel obliged to play by these rules, but I don’t mind sharing hints on how I located Fujimoto’s works.My approach to finding the works of Sou Fujimoto is similar to the regarding how he created his masterpiece David,“It is easy.
You just chip away the stone that doesn’t look like David.”When I searched for House H, I started with all of Tokyo, then removed all parts of the city that don’t contain the house. For instance, it is blatantly obvious that House H is not located in Koto-ku. Of course, it’s not so simple. Once I remove large chunks of the city, I still need help in finding the specific chome 丁目, street, and house. A complete list of Sou Fujimoto’s works is at the bottom of this post.Here are the buildings that I’ve located, listed in a somewhat chronological and order: I. Three buildings (and one more) in HokkaidoThe following four works are fairly easy to find, since they are medical facilities.
I’m not linking to the exact addresses out of partial respect to the patients. (Full respect would be to NOT snoop on them with Google maps).Three of the works are clustered on the same site in Date-shi Hokkaido 北海道伊達市:. Dormitory for the Mentally-Disabled 「伊達の援護寮」.
Children’s Centre for Psychiatric Rehabilitation 情緒障害児短期治療施設. 7/2 HouseIn the photo below (top left), the Children’s Centre for Psychiatric Rehabilitation is the large cluster in the middle of the frame; the 7/2 House is the thin white line at the top, adjacent to the parking lot. The Dormitory for the Mentally-Disabled is the uneven cluster in the middle of the photo, below right. All three buildings are seen together in the bottom photo (rotated, with north at the left). Easy preyThe following two works were easy to find, as their addresses were already posted on the internet:. T house (or House T) (Maebashi, Gunma 前橋市群馬).
Final Wooden House Sou Fujimoto
Tokyo Apartment (Itabashi-ku, Tokyo). Musashino Art University Library and Museum renovation 武蔵野美術大学図書館と美術館改修 I recently saw a flyer for an event at T house, sponsored by 「場所T-house」, the “Where T-house” committee., which includes a map of the house (that’s the Ryōmō Line 両毛線 at the bottom of the map, with JR Maebashi station 前橋駅 at bottom right). The event includes work by, a noted sculptor 彫刻家.
House Na Sou Fujimoto
Because the location has been publicized, I don’t mind sharing the address here: 〒371-0025 前橋市 紅雲町 2ー15ー6 / Kouncho, Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture 371-0025. Tokyo Apartment 「東京アパートメント」 is small apartment building that currently offers a collective housing experience. Its seldom-used Twitter profile says the following:新しい集合住宅の形をプロデュースするTokyoApartment。この家を通じて、入居者の方と一緒に生活を楽しめるコミュニティを作りたいと考えています。We want to produce new forms of collective housing with TokyoApartment. Through this house, and we would like to create a community where you can enjoy a life together with people of tenants.The building’s address is published on its and: 板橋区小茂根2-14-15 Itabashi Komone 2-14-15. The pictures below are (1) the building in 2015, (2) a “For Rent” at the entrance, (3) Tokyo Apartment during construction in 2009, and (4) the building from above (north is at bottom).
Sou Fujimoto’s glass House NA, Tokyo. Bridging the gapThe following works were located with help from other blogs and websites:. Final Wooden House くまもとアートポリス「次世代モクバン」 (2006-2008, Kumamoto 熊本県).
House before House (2007-2008, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 栃木県宇都宮市)Final Wooden House 「次世代モクバン」Occasionally nicknamed “Jenga house”, this work’s full name is Kyusendo holiday village bungalow 球泉洞休暇村バンガロー「次世代モクバン」, a.k.a “Next Generation Mokuban”. The katakana word モクバン MOKUBAN is derived from 木版 ( mokuhan), meaning “woodblock” or “wooden house”.
The work is located in Kuma-gun Kuma village Kanze 球磨郡球磨村神瀬, a cluster of bungalows in a beautiful, deep river valley. The key to locating this structure is the following photograph, which shows a suspension bridge and domed-shape building in the background (that’s the Kyusendo Forest Museum in Kumamoto). Source:Because this work was part of the, a public exhibition, I feel comfortable sharing the exact location, which is Ashikita 芦北町, Kumamoto Prefecture 熊本県 in Kyushu, just 1 km north of Kyusendo Station 球泉洞駅.I learned that House before House is located adjacent to House Utsunomiya 宇都宮のハウス by Taira Nishizawa 西沢大良 , as part of the. I then found a blog that mentioned the chome in which “House Utsunomiya” is located. Using and the, it was then easy to find House before House. Google search success!Located 'House before House' by Sou Fujimoto in Utsunomiya.Here's the Streetview.— the tokyo files (@thetokyofiles)V. Puzzles yet to solveThere are three Sou Fujimoto structures I have yet to locate:.
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House OM (2007-2010, Yokohama 横浜市). House K (2011-2013, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 西宮市、兵庫県). Forest house of 2013 Seto – Setouchi region せとの森住宅 – 瀬戸内地方House OM should be doable, based on the following photographs. Unfortunately, my intuitive grasp of Yokohama isn’t strong enough to narrow down the location substantially, so I anticipate a fair amount of trial-and-error. The attached pic is also a good view. Source:House K is in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, between Osaka and Kobe.
The following picture offers many good clues, but it will take some time to locate the building: Source:I suspect it won’t be hard to locate The Seto Forest Houses せとの森住宅 Setonomori Houses, given the sheer number of them and size of the site. However, I’ll refrain from posting the address, echoing the notice on the:Note this work is the active service of the house. Do not intrude on the premises is carrying tour, also, thank you enough attention to privacy, etc. So as not to inconvenience residents. SUMMARYThat is all that I know. Archives Archives Categories. (4).
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BiographyOne of today’s best-known Japanese architects, Sou Fujimoto (1971) graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1994.The majority of his work (initially projects for small spaces) is located in Japan, where he founded Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000.He gained recognition some years later, when he won the Architectural Review award for emerging architecture 3 years in a row. Fujimoto lectures at the Universities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Minato (Keio University).Growing up on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, from childhood he explored the mountains and forests of Hokkaido island which engendered his interest in the natural world from an early age.His lecture at the Architectural League of New York (2014) entitled “Between Nature and Architecture” defined the fundamental principles of his theoretical reflections. Inspired by organic and natural structures such as forests and caves, Fujimoto draws inspiration from these for an “ambiguous interpretation of space and form”, in a design philosophy defined as 'primitive future'.In particular, for Fujimoto the cave represents 'a raw space where function was determined based on human behavior' (R. Cole) and, more generally, in the complexity of the natural environment, “we inject our human sense of order (and vice versa), carrying forward a new definition of space which responds to the changing times”.Another significant experience, confirmed by the architect himself during the Invisible Architecture conference (Roma, 2017), took place in the streets of Tokyo when Fujimoto was studying at university. Here, as in the forests of Hokkaido, spatiality was composed of apparently disconnected elements (street lamps, benches, distributors, wastebins and other street furniture), all of which contributed to creating a perception of the whole, visible and invisible, with equally important empty spaces.These two places inspire his body of work, positioned between “nature and human artifice”, as evidenced in numerous projects in Japan, such as the T House (2005), whose almost flower-shaped layout consists of one big room with rooms radiating outwards, like petals.