“SETOYAMA” is a villa built on a vast, vertically long site along the river on a cliff on a hill overlooking the sea. This land was a thick thicket with rooted trees on a hard plateau of lava layers created by an eruption about 4000 years ago. Therefore, it has been untouched for a long time and is under a stable natural territory. In the case of architecture that does not assume settlement, such as villa, it is difficult to maintain, and if the architecture gets too close to nature, it will be swallowed by nature immediately.

We sought to create a place where nature and function harmonize well. So We try to avoid modifying the land itself or touch the boundaries of the forest; while doing building a certain distance from the natural territory, the villa lightly blended into the surrounding environment so that it would be buried in the forest.