Look! One Room Forest At Tokyo Design Week

We 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:

2 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!

Via Dezeen

Comments (10)

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

I love the wood, it is bright as the nordic one. An it feels like a space where people do live. Quite cozy actually:)

I LOVE this idea. I'd love to come home to a space like this.

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.

home body is right - loads of wasted space. This looks like it would make a cool kindergarten.

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.

I think it's really beautiful, but I would sooo bump my head on this...

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.