Futurospective Arquitecture

House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects | Photo: © Iwan Baan

Futurospective Arquitecture is the first monographic exhibition held in Europe by Sou Fujimoto, who gathers in CCB, Lisbon, approximately 120 models, projects, objects, materials and film from the work of this 41 years old Japanese architect, illustrating his vision of space.

Some of the exhibited projects were constructed, others are merely concepts, and yet others are in development. The projects range from the smallest or even microscopic architectures to colossal buildings and urban infrastructure with 700 meters height.

Architecture as Forest is the premise that aims to discover a new architectural dimension that exists between interior and exterior, natural and artificial.

Sou Fujimoto | Photo: © Jürgen Rehrmann

The constant change of relations between inside and outside is one of its main themes, reflected in his projects, where the user is the main element that defines the centre of each space. This was also his approach when designing the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, whose fragile cloud shaped structure seemed to merge with the landscape and its visitors suspended in the space between architecture and nature.

Serpentine Gallery 2013 by Sou Fujimoto Architects | Photo: © Iwan Baan

Sou Fujimoto says he believes that architecture of the future be like a forest: "In the forest, leaves, insects and seeds up to the large scale of the tree trunks, a whole bunch of different things truly coexist and are compared. It is this diversity that attracts me, a richness that comes from the space between order and chaos. If architecture is created as Forest, it will be a place of complexity, rich in diversity, far beyond what exists in architecture and in the cities of today. And its inhabitants will be an organic part of that diversity. "

House K by Sou Fujimoto Architects | Photo: © Iwan Baan

The projects shown are attempts to create new notions of nature and man-made environments, such as the tridimensional forest, the geometric forest or the urban forest, where the forest is the source that sheds light over the future of architecture.

To be visited in Lisbon, at the CCB South Garage, until 17 November 2013.

More at: www.ccb.pt