Woods of Net

Woods of Net is a permanent pavilion installation by Japanese architects, Tezuka Architects and artist, Toshiko Horiuchi. The pavilion is located at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. The playground net was knitted entirely by hand by artist Horiuchi, and designed specifically for children to explore play by crawling, rolling, jumping around and on the net. The structure that houses the playground net is composed of just timber, held together by thousand-year-old Japanese joinery techniques. It was designed to feel like a forest, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, while attracting people into the space for play.