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23-10-2013

UID: a home between the earth and the sky in Fukuyama

Keisuke Maeda (UID Architects) has designed a home that brings together earth and sky. The shape of Node, as the Japanese architect’s latest work is called, incorporates an intersection of the layouts of the two levels, which are linked by a staircase, but the true connection is where the trees grow out of the house, reconciling the natural and built environments.

27-06-2012

UID architects: Nest, the forest as home

Using the metaphor of the nest, Keisuke Maeda (UID) interweaves architecture and nature. In his plan for a house in a forest in Onomichi he uses materials to mark the planes of interaction between different spaces and functions while denying vertical barriers and designing façades encouraging visual interaction between inside and outside.