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Not a Hotel Ishigaki by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Image Courtesy of Sou Fujimoto Architects
Not a Hotel Ishigaki blurs the boundaries between indoors and outdoors with its circular design and meadow-covered roof, appearing from above like a divet in the grass.
Renders of the Sou Fujimoto-designed Ishigaki island property – which will encompass just four bedrooms – show its design follows in the footsteps of his House of Music museum in Budapest, which adopted similarly undulating, circular shapes.
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The unbuilt Okinawa hotel is currently still in the concept phase, along with several other Not A Hotel proposals (the hospitality brand is rapidly making a name for itself in Japan, having adopted a crypto-backed NTF membership model that would see architect-designed global houses built by and for its members). Core to Foujimoto’s concept is the free flow of private spaces to the landscape: the grassy terrace is accessed via a pair of apertures that open the building up to the landscape, as well as a small pool.
It is situated to make the most of the nearby ocean views, with the shorefront side of the hotel wrapped in a wall of glass that opens up to the outside. A 12-metre infinity pool similarly looks over the sea, further dissolving the limits between house and landscape.
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