Fuseika House Can Be Entirely Opened To Its Surroundings
https://www.opumo.com/magazine/fuseika-house-can-be-entirely-opened-to-its-surroundings/
Located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, Fuseika House by T-Square Design Associates measures only 114 sq.m. but thanks to the possibility of completely opening three facades, feels a whole lot bigger.
Positioned between two rivers, T-Square Design Associates envisioned a house in which air conditioning wasn’t necessary, replaced by the river breeze blowing freely through the property. Fuseika House features a neutral zone between the interior and exterior perimeter bordered by sliding louvre doors. This design allows the residents to control light, wind and even the privacy of the house by moving the doors according to the weather or time of day.
The open perimeter of Fuseika House is made possible by the reinforced concrete structure which forms the main frame of the project. As well as being central to the structure of the property, the raw concrete interiors contrast in texture and colour to the wooden sliding doors and details.
The minimal interiors of the house are matched by the restrained use of materials in the structure: the concrete main frame is accompanied only by wood. This dialled-back use of materials shifts the focus almost entirely to the innovative form of Fuseika House.
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If I could do that with my house, I would have skunks, squirrels, possums, bobcats, rattlesnakes, other snakes, raccoons, coyotes and every bug within five miles inside my house in no time.
They would all find a way to get in. 
We get deer, giant hares, foxes, and even the occasional älg (what are known as moose elsewhere) here in the middle of Stockholm (and especially in further out, less urban areas, where they even get some bears). Drunken älg (they eat fermented berries and apples and go on rampages, lol) are always a fun news item at times.
I'm in California, in San Diego County. I live in a very rural area. The back of my house abuts a very large hill.
There are steps leading up the hill, and the animals actually use them!
I've seen coyotes, bobcats, skunks and raccoons use my steps. Lazy animals! And the snakes love to sleep on them, because the steps are warm.
You never go out the door without full shoes on, and always pay attention to your surroundings.
One night I went outside to throw some trash away, and almost stepped on a rattlesnake. That's actually happened a couple of times. But it's the skunk's I really worry about. I do not want to get sprayed.
We have had the occasional mountain lion visit as well.
whilst I went to UCLA, and a distant cousin on my mum's side lived in La Jolla. So beautiful. He lived in Scripps Ranch before that (he moved to California from Barbados long, long ago), until his house burnt down in the Cedar fire back when I was a 7 (2003) and living in (where I lived most of my life) London. I remember it well because he had so many pictures of it all when we went to visit him a couple of times.
I'm about 45 minutes inland from La Jolla.
And the brush you see on fire in those photos is exactly what's growing behind my house. We had to evacuate in 2007, but thankfully everything was okay where I am.
So many others were not so lucky.
I was born in Southern California and I've been here all my life. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, (unless I could go to Italy for a couple of years.) 
But it's no fun living under constant threat of fire. It used to be we had to worry for three months of the year. Now it's year-round.
