House in Muko – Kyoto Residence

House in Muko, Kyoto

Design: Fujiwara Architects. A mezzanine-floored residence consisting of a single-roomed space, located on a fan-shaped site. The movements of the sun can be felt inside the house all throughout the year. Light coming from the east strikes the louvered boards before entering the house and reaching deep into its interior.

Hafye House in Odawara City, Kanagawa Home

Hafye House

Architect: CUBO. We envisioned a mid-air space with all the core elements for daily living lifted up onto the second story, and thought about how to bring the scenery of Odawara into every room.

Gyomin Syokudo Restaurant in Okinawa

Gyomin Syokudo Restaurant in Okinawa

Design: Yamazaki Kentaro Design. Located in Itoman, Okinawa, the aim of this project is to support and promote local tradition and culture through its cuisine. The restaurant is covered in Ryukyu limestone and constructed via a “masonry workshop” organized by the project collaborators.

ReForm of Garden in Nara, Japan

ReForm of Garden in Nara

Architect: SPACESPACE. Located in a residential area in Ikoma-city, Nara: the architects stacked the garden and the parking lot at the same planar position by laying a concrete plane which is the roughly same size as living space, and lifting up the part of it to use its downside as the parking lot.

House Wago in Shizuoka, Japanese Residence

House Wago in Shizuoka

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.

Ring Around a Tree, Fuji Kindergarten, Japan

Fuji Kindergarten

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.

Kakko House in Osaka, Japan Property

Kakko House in Osaka

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.”

PABLO Himeji, Hyogo Store: Japan Shop

PABLO Himeji Store

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.

D-Apartment in Osaka Residential Property

D-Apartment in Osaka

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.

N Strips Residence in Osaka Building

N Strips Residence in Osaka

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.

Clover House in Okazaki, Aichi Kindergarten, Japan

Clover House

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.