1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces at the V&A

Beetle's House, Terunobu Fujimori (Tokyo, Japan) Visitors can reach this ‘floating’ teahouse – built out of charred timber – via a ladder, and from it view the surrounding galleries Photograph: V & A Images Photograph: guardian.co.uk Ratatosk, Helen & Hard (Stavanger, Norway) Ten ash trees are cut along the length of their trunks and set face to face. The branches are handwoven, to be grafted on to the tree stumps to form a canopy. The structure is supposed to allow the visitor to enter the interior space of the trees Photograph: V & A Images Photograph: guardian.co.uk Inside/Outside Tree by Sou Fujimoto (Tokyo, Japan) The interior surface of the transparent tree is continuous with the exterior of the cube form that surrounds it. Thus, the visitor can stand outside the cube and inhabit the same space as the tree’s interior Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk Inside/Outside Tree by Sou Fujimoto Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk Ark, by Rintala Eggertsson (Oslo and Bodø, Norway) A freestanding wooden tower is designed to re-evaluate the concept of the ‘archive’. Its walls are made up of hundreds of shelves, holding thousands of second-hand books Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk Spiral Booths by Vazio (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Consists of inter-connected performance booths set around a spiral staircase. The staircase can operate as a corridor, as seating, or as a stage Photograph: V & A Images Photograph: guardian.co.uk In-between Architecture by Studio Mumbai (Mumbai, India) This proposal is modelled on dwellings directly behind the architects’ studio in Mumbai. It examines the unauthorised architecture that constitutes over half the city’s built landscape Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk In-between Architecture by Studio Mumbai Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk In-between Architecture by Studio Mumbai Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk Woodshed, Rural Studio, Auburn University (Newbern, Alabama, USA) Rural Studio is an architectural education programme dedicated to building affordable housing for poor rural communities in Alabama. This extendable shed is constructed entirely from forest thinnings, small constricted trees removed by forest managers Photograph: V & A Images Photograph: guardian.co.uk Woodshed by Rural Studio, Auburn University (Newbern, Alabama, USA) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk