Appartamento per uccelli, Nendo / Bird-apartment by Nendo

Dalla prolifica creatività della firma giapponese Nendo nasce questa casa sull'albero per il Centro Ando Momofuku, una struttura che si dedica a promuovere il contatto dell'uomo con la natura. Il Centro si trova all'interno di un bosco vicino alla città di Komoro, nella prefettura di Nagano. La casa sull'albero di Nendo è pensata come una casa che l'uomo e gli uccelli possano condividere: da un lato, infatti, si trovano 78 accessi alle piccole casette per i volatili mentre, dall'alto, una persona può accedere attraverso una scala a pioli e osservare gli animali mentre si trovano nel loro nido  / UnstoppableJapanese design firm Nendo designed this treehouse for the Ando Momofuku Center, a facility devoted to promoting and increasing access to nature activities. The facility is located in a forest in Komoro City in Japan's mountainous Nagano Prefecture. Their treehouse is collective housing for many birds and one person. On one side, the treehouse has entrances to 78 nest spaces for birds. The other side has an entrance for one person, who can look into the birds' nests from inside the treehouse. Nendo’s work is characterized by a playfulness and an apparent formal simplicity, which is actually deceptive because the products are usually born byan extremely complex process. The simplicity of Nendo's work recalls the ancient Japanese tradition whose roots date back to 1400s and had an important influence on the development of the Western Modernism (as stated by the famous postcard Le Corbusier sent to Walter Gropius in 1954 saying "All what we have been fighting for has its parallel in old Japanese culture"). To a foreign eye, the lightness and simplicity of Nendo’s work evokes the minimalist tradition of Japanese design, which dates to the late 1400s and was a defining influence on Western Modernism. But those qualities are softened by its childlike humor, which seems closer in spirit to Japanese popular culture than to the rationalism of modernist grandees, like the late Sori Yanagi and Naoto Fukasawa.“My designs are very simple and very minimal, but I don’t want them to be too cold,” Mr. Sato explained. “I like them to have a friendliness and playfulness, and a sense of humor. And my starting point is always the story behind the object.”