Living in a villa without walls

Walking through the rooms of House O like liquid sap. Without walls, flowing over its tree-shaped floor plan on a jutting rock overlooking the ocean. And feeling part of a whole.

Welcome to the house without walls designed by the young architect Sou Fujimoto. Forget walls as barriers to divide spaces, see them rather as places for interaction and sharing.

House O is a holiday home built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Pacific just two hours from Tokyo. Built on commission for a couple, it is a tree-shaped space that branches out into the various rooms, offering a host of different ocean views.

Let us smell the ocean. That was the customer's request, and Sou Fujimoto's project accommodated the need to savour the sea with a structure that mirrors a walk over the waves.

Along this path, one cannot help but encounter a panoramic view that smells of iodine, hear the ocean roar behind one's back or catch a glimpse of the foam through a small opening.

At the same time, one can obviously enjoy all the comforts of a villa like a continuous space, without definite boundaries. An architecture designed to be primitive, “amid the natural and the hand-made”.





www.sou-fujimoto.com