House H

Built by Sou Fujimoto in 2009, House H is a small Reinforced Concrete Home in Tokyo, Japan. The goal of this project was to research and understand the structural system of the project, translate it directly to Mass Timber CLT, and then transform and optimize it if it was designed with CLT originally. The final design explored the possibility of delaminating the interior walls from the exteiror by creating a CLT spine with a double-layer glass facade. A glass frit pattern creates privacy and correlates with the original facade openings.