Located in Shizuoka; Japan, Ant-house is a family house that isn't what it seems. Looking at it from the outside you find a black cube with a small door, a fort like structure. However, if you use that small door you enter a different dimension where there is plenty of light and warmth, as you find an interior covered in larch plywood.
mA-style architects had this to say:
"We planned ambiguous space without partitioning a room. By doing so, it gives us free use of the space, The space also enable us to see each other.
The space that has no partition does not have usual conception as a room. So, we can give the role for the space to our favour".
A beautiful example of using natural sunlight and material to create a truly functional house, a house that is both a promoter of sustainability and architectural elegance. As time goes by we see more and more examples of this type of architecture and it seems a bridge has started to form which more people are crossing.
I think its safe to say that sustainable architecture has become the new definition of architecture.
