The Nature of Humanity

Housing, Tokyo
2017

Project team
Philipp Valente

In collaboration with
Jimmy Lei

Aa single family house in Japan was designed that combines living and traditional craftsmanship in a structural sculpture. In producing a series of spaces that counteracts our current built environment, the spirit of voluntary improvement derived from the traditional Japanese tea ceremony was perpetuated in our architecture. Consequently, in the spaces that we produce, the idea of time and space that exists is slowed down into universal set of qualities of weight, gravity, agility, and perhaps a kind of meditative repose. Movement, the connecting component of time and space, is orchestrated by the almost quizzical circulation around the spaces. This series of movements form a procession that filters one from the contrasting environments of the external and the internal.

Einfamilienhaus_Dortmund_Giebelfassade

House E

Dortmund, Germany
Einfamilienhaus Haltern Haus T Ansicht Süd

House T

Haltern, Germany
Stadthaus Bottrop Ansicht Giebelfassade

town house Bottrop

Bottrop, Germany
Haus B Strassenfassade

House B

Bottrop, Germany
Mehrfamilienhaus Luggesmühle Straßenfassade

Luggesmühle

Bottrop, Germany
Umbau Dortmund Untere Pekingstrasse Straßenfassade Breitformat

Untere Pekingstrasse

Dortmund, Germany
Drei Höfe Wohnen Essen Luftbild

Courtyard garden

Essen, Germany
Mehrfamilienhaus Dorsten Perspektive

House S

Dorsten, Germany
Mehrfamilienhaus Luggesmühle Foto Fassade Nord-West

House M

Bottrop, Germany