This project reimagines architecture as a breathing interface—fluid, adaptive, and open to the rhythms of both people and nature. Inspired by Japanese spatial concepts such as Ma and Utsuroi, it embraces transition, ambiguity, and layered experience.

Rooftop gardens, edible landscapes, rainwater harvesting, and green façades form part of a living ecological cycle. Rain is celebrated rather than hidden—dripping from eaves, rippling across stone pools, and nourishing vertical plants, shaping a sensory dialogue between humans and environment.

The building is both a quiet classroom and a social stage: youth document plant growth, residents join in seasonal planting and cooking, and shared care for nature becomes shared care for one another. It is not simply a building, but a slow, soft landscape where boundaries breathe and architecture flows with life.