Iwan Baan
  • Photography
  • Books
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Tokyo Apartments – Sou Fujimoto

Tokyo Apartments – Sou Fujimoto

2010

It is hard to imagine a more literal image of high density dwelling than this, the Tokyo Apartment–Sou Fujimoto’s latest building. A collective housing project requiring a number of dwellings to be packed onto a tight corner site in a low-rise suburban neighborhood of Tokyo, the result has all the innocence and audacity of a child’s answer to the problem of urban density: a pile of houses. Childish things normally do not survive long in an adult world, except perhaps in Japan. That such a scheme could not only be thought up, but then also argued for by the architect, accepted by the client, financed by the bank, approved by the council, and finally built and inhabited is testament not only to the force of Fujimoto’s imagination, but also the curious liberties afforded by the Japanese city.

 

Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite

Tags:

  • Apartment,
  • Japan,
  • Sou Fujimoto Architects,
  • and Tokyo

Other projects tagged with Apartment, Japan, Sou Fujimoto Architects and Tokyo

Archives du Coeur, Teshima Island, Japan – Christian Boltanski

Archives du Coeur, Teshima Island, Japan – Christian Boltanski

Benesse House Museum, Naoshima – Tadao Ando

Benesse House Museum, Naoshima – Tadao Ando

Setonomori Houses, Seto Inland Sea, Japan – Sou Fujimoto

Setonomori Houses, Seto Inland Sea, Japan – Sou Fujimoto

Sendai Mediatheque – Toyo Ito

Sendai Mediatheque – Toyo Ito

Mikimoto Ginza 2, Tokyo Japan – Toyo Ito

Mikimoto Ginza 2, Tokyo Japan – Toyo Ito

De Rotterdam – OMA

De Rotterdam – OMA

Final Wooden House, Kumamura Japan – Sou Fujimoto

Final Wooden House, Kumamura Japan – Sou Fujimoto

Home For All, Rikuzentakata Japan – Toyo Ito

Home For All, Rikuzentakata Japan – Toyo Ito

Tom Na H-iu,Teshima Island – Mariko Mori

Tom Na H-iu,Teshima Island – Mariko Mori

Kawaguchi Crematorium – Toyo Ito

Kawaguchi Crematorium – Toyo Ito

Teshima Museum, Japan – Ruye Nishizawa

Teshima Museum, Japan – Ruye Nishizawa

Meiso no Mori Funeral Hall – Toyo Ito

Meiso no Mori Funeral Hall – Toyo Ito

  • Home
  • Portfolio
  • Tokyo Apartments – Sou Fujimoto

Iwan Baan Photography, Rozenstraat 145, 1016 NP Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: studio@iwan.com — all images © Iwan Baan 1996 - 2025