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Blurring Boundaries in Architecture is a term used to describe a style of architecture that challenges the traditional boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. This style aims to create a seamless connection between the building and its surrounding environment, allowing the interior and exterior to blend into one another. The goal is to create a harmonious relationship between the built environment and nature, creating a more immersive and sensory experience for users.
In 1997, Shigeru Ban completed the Wall-less House, also known as the House Without Walls. In this project, Ban creates a “universal floor,” a term coined by Robert Kronenberg in…
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The Nordic Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (1958-1962), designed by Sverre Fehn to represent Sweden, Finland, and Norway, is a project that deals with Nordic identity. Fehn makes an analogy…
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Completed in 2009 by Lisbon-based architects Pereira Miguel Arquitectos, Casa del Monte, or “The Dune House,” is a hidden concrete structure beneath a sand “dune¨that establishes a new relationship between…
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The PC House by renowned japanese architect Kengo Kuma is a private single-storey house in eastern japan. With a strong roots in traditional japanese temples the program is arranged in a windmill formation with…
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This residential House in Osaka by Japanese UID Architects blurs boundaries introducing life in the interior of the house. (photos by Hiroshi Ueda).
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This white residential House in Toyokawa, Japan was designed by Kentaro Kurihara and Miho Iwatsuki from Studio Velocity Architects introducing a rhomboidal plan shape that allows trees to thrive creating pockets of lush forest in suburbia. (photos by Kentaro…
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The Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) Workshop, completed in 2008 near Tokyo, is a groundbreaking project where architect Junya Ishigami successfully materialized his vision of blurring spatial boundaries. This innovative…
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The Green Edge House, designed by the renowned architectural firm mA-style Architects, is located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. This innovative residential project is a stunning example of the firm’s commitment…
Continue readingFrench architect and filmmaker Vincent Hecht recently revisited Sou Fujimoto‘s House N, seven years after its completion, as part of his ongoing Japanese Collection series. Nestled within a traditional Oita neighborhood, the renowned family home…
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This Atelier and Residential House in Minoh City by Japanese UID Architects blurs boundaries between interior and outdoors architecture (photos by Hiroshi Ueda). UID Architects Atelier-bisque doll Technical Information Architects: UID Architects…
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Designed by Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, this house of floating concrete planes and glass walls contrives an ascetic domesticity tempered only by nature.
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