House of Kasamatsu

It may have become fewer these days, but many people still have experiences of eating or relaxing with families beneath a tree, or climbing trees to find their own space to play. It is just a metaphor, but the desirable place for a family to gather and spend time may be somewhere like beneath a tree, laid-back, with moderate sunshine and comfortable breeze. To create your own space around the trunk, keeping the distance and each doing one’s own thing, seems to be more contemporary and realistic than a decade-ago concept of a living room where a whole family members spend time together watching TV. To have a space surrounding the trunk means, putting it the other way around, to have something to block the view in the center of a space. Your view may be blocked, but the distance from the center or relationship between positions will be clearer than one-room space with an overall view. That means your own position becomes clearer. The circulatory nature of the space would also enable to amplify the distance within a room without being restricted by dimension lines on the plan. The space inside a tree is a special one for children. ...