![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f9d8/f197/cce3/b800/008b/medium_jpg/Pleats___Concrete_box__and_Plants_(c)Vincent_HECHT.jpg?1527577021)
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Architects: Akihisa Hirata
- Area: 331 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Vincent Hecht
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Manufacturers: ADVAN, IKEGAMI, IOC Flooring, TUSCANIA Biscotto, Tokuyama, Yoko Ando
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Construction: Oharakomusho, Akira Ohara, Satoshi Kikuchi
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Facility Engineer: EOS plus, Kazuhiro Endo, Sho Takahashi
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Structural Engineer: OAK, tmsd, Taijiro Kato, Takashi Manda, Masato Araya
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Planting Construction: Ikegami, Yasuyuki Ikegami
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Planting Designer: Onshitsu, Yuichi Tsukada
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f6f6/f197/cce3/b800/007f/medium_jpg/Akihisa_Hirata_-_Tree-Ness_House_-_Vincent_HECHT_MG_1029.jpg?1527576281)
Text description provided by the architects. This project is a complex building of houses and galleries built in Tokyo, Toshimaku. One tree is organically integrated with a combination of parts having different characteristics, such as a trunk, a branch, and a leaf. As with the tree, we tried to create an organic architecture that could be formed by a hierarchical combination of different parts such as plants/pleats (as openings) / concrete boxes.
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Windows, Cityscape, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f68e/f197/cce9/2f00/00a4/newsletter/Akihisa_Hirata_-_Tree-Ness_House_-_(c)Vincent_HECHT_MG_9971.jpg?1527576180)
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Image 45 of 47](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0d/5124/f197/cce3/b800/0097/newsletter/Concept_A3_Plants_0001.jpg?1527599378)
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Facade, Concrete](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f911/f197/cce9/2f00/00ad/newsletter/look_down_void_from_roof_2(c)Vincent_HECHT.jpg?1527576826)
While concrete boxes are stacked three-dimensionally, the main structure containing complicated voids is made. Then, open the windows with pleats in them, agitating the inside and outside, and at the same time create a place that fits with the physical sensation of the person. In addition, we set up planting around the pleats and create an organic whole like breathing in the surrounding environment like a tree.
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Windows, Bedroom](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f630/f197/cce3/b800/007c/medium_jpg/4F_ower's__Reading_room(c)Vincent_HECHT.jpg?1527576085)
We set up a calm environment such as bedrooms and a gallery inside of the box. On the other hand, the outside of the box becomes terraces, gardens, and the place surrounded by glass as the living room and dining room. Rather than focusing only the internal space of the building, the entire space including the external space like the garden and the street is three-dimensionalized. I intended to create a futuristic and savage architecture that awakens human animal instincts in which the inside and outside are reversed multiple times.
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Windows, Chair, Shelving](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f850/f197/cce3/b800/0085/newsletter/Look_at_the_dining_direction_from_the_living_room_of_Room_302(owner's_room)_through_the_colonnade._(c)Vincent_HECHT_MG_1549.jpg?1527576630)
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Image 44 of 47](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0d/50f8/f197/cce3/b800/0096/newsletter/Concept_A2_Pleats_0001.jpg?1527599335)
![Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b0c/f870/f197/cce9/2f00/00aa/newsletter/Look_at_the_living_direction_from_the_dinning_room_of_Room_302(owner's_room)_through_the_colonnade.__(c)Vincent_HECHT_MG_1560.jpg?1527576661)