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clouds in a box by house om

Clouds in a box by house OM, Sou Fujimoto architecture in Yokohama Japan translates as clouds in a box, the idea was provided by the client who wanted a patio with a rich atmosphere.

As the site is comparatively small at 72 square meters, they envisioned the interior of the house as complex ways to interweave with the exterior spaces.

The result is a three-dimensional patio that links the living spaces in various ways, a kind of ambiguous interface between inside and outside. The box became an abstract organism, like a cloud.

Each floor is given a distinctive shape while slicing a different shape from the outer space.

We stacked the resulting floor shapes on top of another, while the interior and exterior spaces were interrelated. It was when we later discovered different levels of three-dimensional complexity.

This pull-push composition of indoor and outdoor spaces creates unexpected openings, and multi-scale spaces.

As for living together in the house, it is Sou Fujimoto’s philosophy that space and function always influence each other. The two are intrinsically linked, born one from the other.

During the design of the internal spaces, we insert and organize the parts we need for each day such as the kitchen and the bathroom. By organizing elements such as stairs and warehouses in boxes, the internal space was transformed into a home.

Although the house is complicated and confusing in these inside-outside links, architect Sou Fujimoto believes that it works well as a place to live.

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