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Look! One Room Forest
At Tokyo Design Week

110408_tokyo3.jpgWe love it when nature is brought indoors, so we loved this modern take on an indoor forest. As a part of Tokyo Design Week, architects got to realize their ideas for an organic living space with natural room dividers:

 
 

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110408_tokyo.jpg2 years ago Japanese architects Naruse Inokuma presented an idea for an installation called the Forest One Room. They won the competition and got to realize their concept at this year's Tokyo Design Week. The idea behind the room was to use large scale pieces of wood to simulate a forest and make a "rich, fun, comfortable space." We love the neutral tones and playful criss crossing of branches!

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beautiful! I love also how all the stuff one has (bottles, laundry, sneakers, etc.) is part of the "forest" rather than being hidden away.

posted by bronislava on November 6th 2008 at 11:23am
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I love the wood, it is bright as the nordic one. An it feels like a space where people do live. Quite cozy actually:)

posted by Sofia M on November 6th 2008 at 12:47pm
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I LOVE this idea. I'd love to come home to a space like this.

posted by brownbaby on November 6th 2008 at 12:52pm
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Wow....Loftlorien!

posted by btoddster on November 6th 2008 at 12:54pm
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Cool, but being on the tall side, all I can think about is how I could only walk the narrow paths under the peaks of the branches.

posted by home body on November 6th 2008 at 1:12pm
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home body is right - loads of wasted space. This looks like it would make a cool kindergarten.

posted by amed studio on November 6th 2008 at 1:36pm
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fabulous space...ingenious

posted by formosagirl on November 6th 2008 at 2:13pm
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Pretty but severely impractical. I think it's a cool idea, but like home body, I am tall, and all I can look at is all the places I would hit my head, lurching around trying to navigate things. The room looks messy, I don't like stuff thrown over to hang on it. In that way, it just reminds me of what people generally do to their home-gym exercise equipment after a while. I don't really think all the laundry and shoes and dishes look like they belong in the forest. It doesn't fit the concept for "real life" when nobody really likes looking at that stuff and taking sort of an obstacle course from one side of a room to the other.

posted by K T G on November 6th 2008 at 6:39pm
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Wow, I think this looks really beautiful.But on the other hand it does kind of look like an obstacle course, and I don't know what I would think of living in a space like this in real life. Maybe if there was only 1 or 2 trees it would be better. And if they were in the corner.

They don't really seem like room dividers, so much as they are just in the way.

And they plants and lights hanging from them look so much better than the laundry that's just thrown around.

posted by idiotdogbrain on November 6th 2008 at 8:46pm
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I think it's really beautiful, but I would sooo bump my head on this...

posted by Aimi on November 7th 2008 at 8:57am
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Remember, folks: Most Japanese are short.

I'm 5'8" and I constantly got comments about how tall I was when I lived over there. I was taller than even most men.

posted by Mrs.Mack on November 7th 2008 at 9:01am
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