Florian Busch embeds branch-shaped holiday home in Japanese forest
Tokyo studio Florian Busch Architects has designed a cedar-clad holiday home on stilts with rooms that branch out into the surrounding forest.
Named House In The Forest, the timber home is located within three hectares of forest land near a ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan.
Top: House In The Forest by Florian Busch. Above: the home sits on an opening in a forest
The owners of the remote home wanted a place where they could escape to the solitude of the forest and spend time together as a family.
Instead of clearing the site, Florian Busch Architects built a 230-square-metre home that accommodates the existing trees and branches out between them, so that the residents could feel as though they were immersed in nature.