This is a house for weekend outdoor living in Kawakami village, Nagano prefecture. A North Face 2m dome tent is used as the living room, and the house consists of a flat wooden deck for pitching the tent, a kitchen, a storage room, a bathroom and a toilet. The deck, firewood shelves, and rooms are all made of wood from the village's thinned karamatsu trees.

Japan | Nagano

Jutakutokushu August 2009 issue 18P