Mio Tsuneyama and Fuminori Nousaku
(Japan)Mio Tsuneyama and Fuminori Nousaku are Tokyo-based architects. Fuminori is the founder of Fuminori Nousaku Architects and an associate professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, while Mio co-founded Studio mnm. Since 2024, they have collaborated under HOLES, engaging with ecosystems through critical architectural practice and academia.
Their projects include Holes in the House, House for Seven People, and Guesthouse Takaoka, focusing on on-site resources and material flows. They also explore buildings that coexist with healthy soil, including independent foundations in Akeno Raised Floor, Piles and Pointed Roof, and House on Classical Elements. They have taught at Columbia GSAPP, EPFL, and TU Munich, and received a Special Mention at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Making Knots, Weaving Shed
Becoming Circular
In this workshop, we will build a hut from old cloth, weaving it into structure. Through knotting, braiding, and weaving, we explore how this supple, thread-based material—so different from conventional building materials—can form minimal structures. We seek architectural applications for thin, low-waste materials that readily return to the earth.
If the hut represents the origin of architecture, then it also opens new architectural possibilities. Cloth, familiar as our daily clothing yet structurally ‘weak,’ teaches us how to build with weak forces, challenging established notions of strength in architecture. At the same time, cloth carries histories of exploitation, while its biodegradability reminds us that it survives by relying on the power of others—such as fungi—to return to the earth.
By weaving huts from discarded urban resources, this workshop becomes a small act of community building, fostering new sensitivities toward the overlooked and the weak.
