The Japanese architect designs buildings that float or are nearly invisible – but now his fairytale visions are becoming a realityImagine a world where buildings don’t exist. A region with no rustic cottages nor gleaming skyscrapers,no classicism nor modernism, no preconceived idea of what a house or an office block should be. How would we develop spaces from scratch if anything was possible? Freed from the conventions of architecture and construction, or what would this world look like?It’s a question Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been trying to reply for the past decade,dreaming of structures that are as light as a cloud, as vast as the sky, and as random as the trees in a forest or the stars in the sky. Many architects are fond of using nature metaphors,of attempting to blur the inside and out, but Ishigami is determined to create another nature altogether: by designing buildings that are as primitive and irregular as natural phenomena.
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Source: guardian.co.uk