Japanese Barn Building, Nakanojo-town Minohara

This information center is on the east side of the plaza where it got off Nakanojo Station. A wide table is put on the room where the wall, the floor, and the ceiling were plastered in white. It is an area of 364cm×728cm and about 16 of Tatami.

Daylight House Japan, Yokohama Residence

The site is five minutes walk from the railway station, and it is surrounded by a mixture of detached dwellings and 10-floor condominiums and office buildings. In this location nested in a valley between buildings, the light streaming down from the sky above felt precious.

RoomRoom, Itabashi House, Tokyo Property

RoomRoom (House for hearing Handicapped persons). This is a house where deaf parents and two children are living. The two sides of the premises are facing narrow roads in an overcrowded residential area in Itabashi ward, Tokyo, Japan.

Keyhole House, Kyoto Residence, Japan

Keyhole House - Kyoto Residence

The site is in Kyoto, Japan. It is a small house for four people and two cats. It has only 100 square meters of floor space. It is standing alone in the corner of a small parking lot like a table left behind at the seaside.

Hoki Museum, Chiba Gallery, Japan

The main theme of his collection are realistic oil paintings miraculously painted in detail with marvelous technique, so we thought that “gallery” is most suited for these works and should be selected as an archetype of this museum space.

Konoha Mall Hashimoto, Japan Shopping Centre

The new Konoha Mall, designed by The Jerde Partnership, is the firm’s twelfth project to be developed within the last 15 years in Japan, and is designed as a new community gathering place for the Hashimoto district.

Ceremony Hall Oita, Japanese Civic Building

The requirements from a client: A ceremony room is a capacity of 40. Space like a cave. Space which descends to the deep place toward the center. In contrast with it, it is bright and a lounge is open space.

Kishigawa House, Kinokawa-County Building

The owner of the house is a Sushi chef from Wakayama. Dressed in coveralls most of his spare time, he is a big car lover and a mature man who enjoys both his work and hobby.

Matsugaoka House, Kawanishi Residence

The project began from site selection with the client. After visiting several locations, the inverted L-shaped lot in the residential area of Kawanishi city, Hyogo grabbed the family’s heart with its scenic view far over Satsuki Mountain from the east side of the lot, which is one level higher than the surrounding townscape.

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival, Aomori, Japan – design by molo + d/dt Arch + Frank la Rivière Architects inc – In August, Nebuta Festival (origin 8th century) fever descends upon Aomori: paper lantern like floats showing warriors from Japanese and Chinese history and myth in dramatic poses often showing battle scenes.

Hokkaido House, Asahikawa Home, Kamikawa

House M Hokkaido property interior

This is a house built in the central portion of the city in Hokkaido. The neighboring house approaches the next ground very limit borderline on the housing complex and the east side of seven stories, and there is a building of the tax office not used now in the west side in the south.

Hokkaido House, Kitami-shi Home, House O

Hokkaido House, Kitami-shi Home, House O

The site sits in Northern Japan, in a small city of Eastern Hokkaido with a mere population of 7000. The forestry industry has been lasting since long ago, however depopulation advances while the factory industry declines.

Shounan House, Kanagawa-ken Home

Shounan House, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan – design by Jun Igarashi Architects – located 10-minute’s walk from the station, with much old housing stock.