INSIDE OUTING

摘要

The heavy wooden front door, framed by a wall of weather-beaten concrete, swings open. It does not, however, reveal the inside of a home - instead it simply leads from one outdoor space to another. Crossing the 'threshold' of Inverted House is an abstract experience that perhaps best sums up the essence of the experimental structure, which excels at surprising and subverting in equal measure. Located in rural Taiki, a small town on Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido, Inverted House was conceived by a four-strong team of students from the Oslo School of Architecture for an annual competition hosted by the LIXIL JS Foundation.