At first glance, this project for apartment design in Tokyo looks to be a set of boxes arranged unorderly, but they have been designed this way to serve some special purpose. It’s very much like climbing up and down a mountain. Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, the collective housing project comprises five dwelling units, including the owner’s unit. Every dwelling unit comes with either two or three independent rooms of prototypical house shapes. The rooms on the different floors are connected to each other with outside stairs. When you pass along these stairs, each dwelling unit is realized by the experience of two rooms. The architects think of this collective housing as the miniature of Tokyo. If ever made for real, such dwelling units will certainly fall in the category of offbeat homes.
