Nesting: Beyond Objects to the Bodily Experience of Space

Abstract

Although the Japan in which I live can no longer be described as an economic superpower, the rest of the world may view the majority of the population here as enviably wealthy. Yet many of us here feel that the spaces of our daily lives are somehow impoverished. Why should that be so? It seems that the origin of this poverty lies partly in our architecture. With the motivation of simply trying to address this issue, I have devoted the last decade to designing small buildings.