Article source: Tezuka Architects + TIS & PARTNERS

This is a permanent pavilion for a net artist, Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. The artist knitted the net entirely by hands, which is designed for children to crow in, roll around, and jump on the net.  It was easy for us to see the artwork being outside even when it cannot be exposed to rain or ultraviolet light. We wanted to design a space as soft as the forest where the boundary between outside and inside disappears. The space attracts people like campfire. The children play inside of the net just as fire and parents sit around and lay on the woods.

Night View (Images Courtesy Katsuhisa Kida/FOTOTECA)

• Architects: Tezuka Architects + TIS & PARTNERS
• Project name: Woods of Net
• Location: Ninotaira, Hakone Kanagawa, Japan/inside of Hakone Open-air Museum
• Photos: Katsuhisa Kida/FOTOTECA
• Lighting Designer: Masahide Kakudate/Lighting Architect&Associates
• Client: Hakone Open-Air Museum

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