{"id":214847,"date":"2025-06-26T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214847\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:30:15","slug":"tree-trunks-pierce-through-sauna-shelter-by-daichi-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214847\/","title":{"rendered":"tree trunks pierce through sauna shelter by DAICHI in japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

daichi weaves cabin into the japanese forest<\/p>\n

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Amid the wooded hills of Sagamihara City in Kanagawa, Japan<\/strong><\/a>, DAICHI inserts Tree Sauna, a structure designed to be both a sauna<\/strong><\/a> and a sleeping shelter<\/strong><\/a>. This small 100-square-meter building seems to grow from the surrounding forest, and, unlike most architecture, conforms to its natural context, asking for permission rather than staking a claim.<\/p>\n

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The architecture emerges from what DAICHI principal Makoto Tanijiri calls the \u2018in-between\u2019. \u2018Between the city and nature, between people and objects, between inside and outside, or between function and feeling,\u2019 he notes.<\/strong> \u2018I have come to see these spaces not as mere gaps or neutral zones, but as creative frontiers\u2014places where sensitivity and imagination can take root.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Built without disturbing existing trees, the structure is composed in harmony with the forest, allowing it to warp, lean, or even break in response to the terrain, embracing distortion as a reflection of nature\u2019s rhythms. \u2018This distortion is not a designer\u2019s manipulation but the result of a dialogue with nature,\u2019 Tanijiri shares.<\/strong> \u2018It breathes in ways that overly polished spaces never could.\u2019<\/p>\n

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all images courtesy of DAICHI<\/p>\n

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Tree Sauna is designed for trees, wind, and people<\/p>\n

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Creative development company<\/strong><\/a> DAICHI intentionally introduces inconvenience as an architectural principle with this project, free of fixed programs and engineered efficiencies. Tree Sauna\u2019s safety isn\u2019t guaranteed, its purpose is unclear, and how people use it is left open. \u2018There is a concept known as \u201dbenefits of inconvenience\u201d \u2014 the idea that, in seeking convenience, we\u2019ve lost certain instincts: to feel, to imagine, to move with our hands,\u2019 Tanijiri explains.<\/strong> \u2018By revisiting inconvenience, we reclaim those primal abilities.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Set on a forested site with a footprint of just 99 square meters, Tree Sauna is entirely designed in-house by DAICHI, covering everything from architecture to structure and mechanical systems. Its compact form is a way to prompt larger questions about space, use, and presence. The structure is shaped to allow in elements like time, sound, humidity, and uncertainty, drawing people into the forest. \u2018What is architecture, really?\u2019 the architect asks.<\/strong> \u2018Is it something built only for humans? Or should it be something shared with the trees, the wind, and the birds?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

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DAICHI inserts Tree Sauna amid the wooded hills of Sagamihara City in Kanagawa, Japan<\/p>\n

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this small 100-square-meter building seems to grow from the surrounding forest<\/p>\n

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the architecture emerges from what DAICHI principal Makoto Tanijiri calls the \u2018in-between\u2019<\/p>\n

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