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Interior-exterior relationships are among the most fundamental concerns in architectural design, encompassing the strategies by which buildings mediate between the protected world within and the natural or urban environment beyond — through thresholds, openings, transparent planes, transitional spaces, and the careful orchestration of views, light, and air that connects inside to outside. The quality of the interior-exterior relationship determines how a building breathes, how occupants experience their connection to landscape or city, and whether architecture feels like an extension of its setting or an isolated object within it. Contemporary architects explore this dialogue through framed views, sliding walls, covered terraces, and the dissolution of the boundary between interior and landscape, seeking to create spatial sequences that reward movement through a building with an ever-evolving relationship between the world inside and the world beyond.
And suddenly there’s an interior and an exterior. One can be Inside or outside. Brilliant! And that means – equally brilliant! – this: thresholds, crossings, the tiny loop-hole door, the almost imperceptible transition between the inside and…
In 2010 Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto completed in Tokyo the design of the Musashino Art University Museum & Library. The celebrated project redefines a new relationship between the user, books…
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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Circular hollows create sunken rooms and curved balconies inside this wooden house in Japan by UID Architects. The residence is named Pit House, in reference to the six excavated spaces…
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