Comments on: Yakisugi House by Terunobu Fujimori

By: yan sarawak

yan sarawak — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:22:18 +0000

good for bird house in malaysia

By: chris

chris — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:50:18 +0000

I live in this city but I've never seen it! Got a map?

By: RLKC

RLKC — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:50:29 +0000

LOVE IT! it exudes such simplistic beauty as opposed to the many form-play future-looking architecture today(most notably Dubai)! amazing! officially a fan(:

By: Artifacts

Artifacts — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:36:26 +0000

Fujimori’s entry in the small spaces exhibition currently at the V&A in London is the hit of the show and uses the same aesthetic ideas on a tiny scale. Just saw the show and was spellbound by the juxtaposition of his little legged house among the medieval wood carvings and architectural fragments. Materialized folklore.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/smallspaces/exhibition/index.html

By: Peter Correll

Peter Correll — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:58:29 +0000

Also intrigued with this architect and technique since reading the article in Dwell. So far, I’ve found a little more but am still looking for information on the charring process.
The charred wood is referred to as shou-sugi-ban (焼杉板), and a google search or google image search return multiple hits, but I haven’t found a “how to” source yet…
This page may be of interest though: http://pursuingwabi.com/2007/11/05/shou-sugi-ban/
Will post more if and when I find it…