Design: msd-office, architects. This building consists of a two stories high rectangular box with a meter deep balcony, which functions both as a semi-outdoor corridor connecting the rooms on the upper floor, and as a roof over the ground floor entrance porch and veranda.
Design: Tezuka Architects. The annex to Fuji Kindergarten contains English classrooms and a school bus waiting area. A twisting zelkova tree dominates the site and while half of the building is exterior space, the footprint does not define the boundary between outside and in.
Design: YYAA Architects. An expanded metal stair connects each floor and spreads the sun light inside. Occupants are “living like birds swinging from branch to branch.”
A fresh-baked cheese tarts store in Hyogo by Design Atelier RONDO, architects. The architects made a sequence of intersectional curve lines from the façade to the inside of the shop like a tunnel, based on layer design.
Architect: SPACESPACE. This collective housing’s scale is intermediate position between detached housing and building. This project site is situated on the west side of small station, a big 700-year-old camphor tree passing through the platform and the canopy.
Design: Jun Murata architect, JAM. A new white louver of cedar is painted white. The surface is ‘dimly grained’ in terms of reflectivity, like metal. With sunshine angles through the day various expressions are apparent.
MAD architects have completed their first project in Japan, the Clover House kindergarten. Located in the small town of Okazaki, the school’s setting boasts views of the paddy fields and mountains, characteristic of the Aichi Prefecture.
Design: KELUN, architects. The architects designed a house for a young couple in Ishikawa Prefecture nonoichi of Japan.
Design: Atelier Ryo Abe – Shima Kitchen was a renovation project to create a venue for arts and dining from an old vacant house in a village on Teshima, a rural island in the Seto Inland Sea of Western Japan.
Design: Alts Design Office, Architects. You will enjoy your time in this cozy house with different situations. It could be change your ordinary days to special one.
Design: Kidosaki Architects Studio. The owner of this spectacular Japanese house spent years to find the steeply sloping site. The architect links the beautiful vast sea of trees with the internal space. When you open the large door to the living room, Mt. Asama appears in the picture window frame.
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The house – at the top of a hill in Miyazaki City – focused on the natural features of the site, “wind” and “cliff”.
Design: Roovice, architects. The bagel shop project began with local residents’ concern about their future due to a decrease in population and tax revenues and they were looking for the possibility of utilizing vacant houses in the city.
Design: Ryumei Fujiki + Yukiko Sato / F.A.D.S. Planned with careful consideration for air circulation as well as for the harsh, snowy climate of the Japan Sea coast, the structure is composed of white boxes of varying scale that frame spaces like pictures.
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The concept of this designing is to ensure the privacy and safety, and also create a living space which makes family members happy and easy. Each room is independent of another, and perfectly blending with the nature.
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates . This building consists of a hybrid structure, with a podium on the 1st floor level composed of reinforced concrete and glazing, and wooden boxes configured in two floor levels and placed on top of the podium.
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates. This small house located within a commercial area near Nagoya station is built on a lot with 43 sqm in steel frame structure of three levels, while building area is less than just 33 sqm.
Design: Hironari Itoi of sside architects. This plan began in a heavily populated residential area. The are contains a swatch of mid and high rise buildings, meaning there is not much light left over for the low-risers.
