A2-house Residence, Fukuoka City Property

A2-house Residence Fukuoka city

Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect, A house to feel the benefits of nature and changes of seasons, the property design’s main concept is to protect the family from the adjacent industrial site.

Orandajima House Afterschool Facility

Orandajima House Afterschool Facility

Design: Martin van der Linden, Architects. After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the town, a request to help came from a ‘longtime friend’ of Yamada machi in The Hague, the Netherlands. This group offered the town a facility where children would have a place to play, heal and come together.

Montblanc House in Okazaki, Japan

Montblanc House in Okazaki, Japan

New House in Okazaki. The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. A house for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn. The site, surrounded by neighboring houses in 3 directions, is in a quiet residential area.

AYA House in Osaka, Japanese Home

Aya House

Design: Yoshihiro Yamamoto. For their daughter who is seriously disabled, and their local supporters, the new salon was installed by connecting from the street to the main hall of the temple. To protect their daughter from direct sunlight, and to divide the inner rooms and outer graves, the first floor is closed and light is taken from the big high side light.

Krampton House, Hyogo Property, Japan

Krampton House

Design: Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates. This is a residential area where magnificent nature still remains. The site for the building is situated on a sloped land among natural forest. Two large trees with beautifully shaped branches (one is a camphor tree and the other a cherry tree) stand on top of the site. These trees are integrated into this residential building design.

HOTO FUDO Japan: Yamanashi Building

HOTO FUDO, Japan

Design: Takeshi Hosaka Architects. This Japanese noodle bar building seems to belong to such natural objects as mountains and clouds. It is made from soft geometry, which will not arise from the figures like quadrangles and circles. By continuously operating innumerable polygon mesh points, we have determined the shape that clears the conditions such as the consistency as shell construction and the undulations that ward off rainwater in spite of its free geometry.

House F Osaka: Contemporary Residence

House F

Design: Kenji Architectural Studio. The house is designed for a couple, and is a wooden three stories house that is built at urban narrow site. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.

Housing Complex Niigata Residential Property

Housing Complex Niigata residential property

Noh, a traditional, Japanese performance art, serves as the main inspiration for the architectural concept. The performance of Noh is heavily reliant upon the use of delicately carved masks.

House in Akiya, Yokosuka City Residence

House in Akiya Yokosuka City residence concrete facade

This is a two-story weekend house with a rooftop deck in Akiya, located a few hours drive south of Tokyo. Akiya, together with the neighboring area, Hayama, is known for its concentration of summer/weekend houses

Hakko Kyoto, Japan Car Showroom Building

Hakko Kyoto Japan car showroom building

The maintenance area is designed as the place where owners will stay with their cars. When wandering about in the cloud of information, things are not recognized clearly for what they are as each bit of information is not clearly defined in either its characteristic or identity.