“Primitive Future” is a sort of primitive situation that relates to the human ‘cave’ habitation but at the same time I like to create something new for the future. I call it 'Cave or nest’, the two embryonic states of architecture. A ‘nest’ is a place for people that are very well prepared, everything is assembled and very functional, meanwhile the ‘cave’ is just a raw space, which people need to explore and find their own comfort within. This is a situation where people can use space creatively. I prefer something like the cave-like-unintentional space. something that is in between nature and artifact - formless form. Furthermore, space is relationships and architecture generates various senses of distances. I’m very optimistic and see architecture as something between living together and independently. There are many degrees of interaction amongst people. To construct a wall is to bisect a space into 0 and 1, however a space must have intrinsically many graduations between 0 and 1. I like to create an in-between-space, therefore my works are very basic You talk about the ideas of “cave and nest” as the two embryonic states of architecture. We understand that these concepts are related to the architectural space from the design stage to the construction. Could you develop these ideas and the conceptual relation between the design stage and the built space? A nest is prepared for humans’ inhabitation, while a cave is independent from humans’ inhabitation. It provides inspiration to people. Creating something artificial from things that are natural is a challenging process. After the space is built, the inhabitants can arrange the space with their own creativity. This is possible since our idea; our scheme is often a flexible one. The basic scheme is very strong but it can adapt while still remaining strong. I like to answer to the clients’ request as much as possible, but I do not see it as compromises. I react with a more creative development. Of course clients always have an idea of what they want and some site specific
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concerns but at the same time they like to have something unexpected or something beyond their imagination. Many clients want a new lifestyle through a new style of house. I propose something beyond their request and if they like the idea, the project will start. if they don’t like the project at all it will stop. You have explained in some projects that buildings are not objects but fields of relations. Could you explain this concept? If space is fields of relationships, architecture is to generate various senses of distances. The origin of architecture must have been constituted purely of “distances”. Far before the advent of roofs or walls, only the various modulations of distances were recognized. Distances predicated the degrees of interactions amongst persons and objects; thus, the profound spatial expressions of potential expanses were enriched by diverse qualities of gradations and intonations. One can be alienated and yet connected. Close and yet separate. Associations are solely indicated by propinquity. These interactions transformed ad infinitum with motion. People can discover places for habitation in those cadences of space. Spaces enriched by these distances can become places for people’s habitation. T house is a one-room house. Though the plan is quite unique, being intonated, or bent. From the bent point are walls stretched towards the center of the architecture. Each spaces created between these walls have, thus, different depths and different extent of relation to other spaces. A wide range of diverse qualities of the spaces, such as composure, privacy and so on, are obtained. In your works, the material, the structure and the light have a strong relation that creates the space. This conjunction of elements as a whole creates an atmosphere. Is this idea of atmosphere important from the design process or it is a consequence of the built space? The atmosphere emerged from the elements are important during the design process and also while the architecture develops into