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When talking about Tokyo, westerners have in mind the high-rise buildings of Shibuya and Shinjuku and dense crowds. But Tokyo is actually an horizontal city, with a lower density than Paris. Neighbourhoods of single-family houses spread across the horizon. In the narrow streets, each family try to build a nest, on minimum-sized lands, in cocoons open to the sky but hidden from the streets.  
In this project, I wanted to approach architecture by the documentary photography, by...
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When talking about Tokyo, westerners have in mind the high-rise buildings of Shibuya and Shinjuku and dense crowds. But Tokyo is actually an horizontal city, with a lower density than Paris. Neighbourhoods of single-family houses spread across the horizon. In the narrow streets, each family try to build a nest, on minimum-sized lands, in cocoons open to the sky but hidden from the streets.  
In this project, I wanted to approach architecture by the documentary photography, by showing the outside of the houses and their environments. I tried to  conciliate two separated worlds :  humanity of street photography and perfection of architecture photography. A building is designed to live inside and outside. Architecture without human being is non-sense.
These houses are made by the most prestigious Japanese architects, sowed like jewels in the immensity of Tokyo. In Japan, architectural rules are very liberal due to the lack of historical heritage, thus it allows architects to express themselves. Tokyo is an open-sky theater. Its architecture is a set unique in the world, whose inhabitants are both actors and audience.
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