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Roppongi Nouen Farm in Tokyo, Japan by On Design

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Roppongi Nouen FARM an urban farm right in the middle of Roppongi which is the center part of Tokyo.People who visit this place can see the process how vegetables grow and also eat the vegetables at the restaurant right next to this farm. This is a place where agriculture and people become close. Glass houses with inorganic iron frame and glass are arranged sterically on a wooden deck just like the surrounding city scape. A farm transported from the country side into the units.

Roppongi Nouen Farm

  • Architect: On Design
  • Project: Roppongi Nouen Farm
  • Location: Tokyo, Japan
  • Photography: Koichi Torimura
  • Steel Construction: 21.81 Square footage
  • Completion: 2010
  • Software used: Vectorworks

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House with Eaves and an Attic in Tokyo, Japan by On design Partners

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

“House with Eaves and an Attic”

This is a house located in Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo. The characteristic of this area is the hilly landscape. The site is located on the top of the hill and half of the site is a cliff. There were many trees remained untouched on the cliff.

Photo by Koichi Torimura

  • Architect: On design Partners – Osamu Nishida+Takanori Ineyama+Rie Yanai
  • Name of Project: House with Eaves and an Attic
  • Site: Tokyo, Japan
  • Photograph: Koichi Torimura
  • Structure: Wood
  • Total floor: 2 floors
  • Site area: 182.25㎡
  • Building area: 58.18㎡
  • Total floor area: 84.84㎡
  • Software used: Vectorworks

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Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow, Poland designed using Vectorworks

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

The new main building of the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow offers a symbolic and attractive combination of virtually all the symbolisms associated with the museum, including the idea of flying, the atmosphere and structure of an airfield and a passion for the history of technology.

Polish Aviation Museum

  • Architects: Pysall Ruge Architekten with Bartlomiej Kisielewski
  • Project: Polish Aviation Museum
  • Location:Krakow, Poland
  • Client: Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego w Krakowie
  • Project initiator and main co-founder: Samorząd Województwa Małopolskiego(Regional Authorities of Malopolska)
  • Software used: Vectorworks (architectural drawings) and AutoCAD (M&E drawings)

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YSY House in Seto, Japan by Akitoshi Ukai/AUAU

Friday, April 1st, 2011

It is a small house for two small children and young couple. The blank and coming in succession were invented by making the best use of the vertical interval in the small hill, making “Enclosure” as the life scene place in the average of a dynamic flow that connected the earth to the sky, and dressing “Wear” the outside. This creates an inside, outside new relation and sense of distance, reinforces the subject soft “Enclosure” structurally by “Wear”, assumes the strengthened plan, and has both the role to ease the thermal environment in the environment.

YSY House

  • Architects:Akitoshi Ukai/AUAU
  • Project: YSY House
  • Location: Seto, Japan
  • Function: Personal Residence
  • Site area: 182.63‡u

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Bridal Magic in Hyogo, Japan by Process5 Design Architect

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

“A circuit-style dress shop inlaid with frames”

Many people of all nationalities throng the main street that leads from JR Himeji Station to the World Heritage Site of Himeji Castle.

Dress Display space View

  • Architects: Process5 Design Architect
  • Project: Bridal Magic
  • Location: Smile bldg.-2F 75 Minamimachi Himeji-city Hyogo Japan
  • Designer: Ikuma Yoshizawa, Noriaki Takeda
  • Project designer: Tao Thong Villa Co,.ltd. Hideki Kureha
  • Contractor: J.Front Design & Construction Co.,Ltd. Yasukazu Miki, Tatsuya Nagaoka
  • Collaborator: Lighting design Ushio Inc Mariko Hayashi
  • Photographer: Tao Thong Villa Co,.ltd. Tsubasa Nukii
  • Construction type: Interior Renewal
  • Function: Dress shop
  • Total area: 183.36 sq. meters
  • Construction phase: Oct.〜Nov. 2010
  • Software used: Vectorworks

Main materials

  • Floor: Milk pine flooring(Nostamo), tatami
  • Wall: Molding picture frame on mirror, Split stone(Advan)
  • Ceiling: Wall paper
  • Furniture: lacquered Oak

Operation data

  • Open: 13 Nov. 2010
  • Business hours: Appointment system
  • Regular holiday: Tuesday
  • Tel: +81-79-287-1230
  • Management: Bride’s word Co,. Ltd.
  • Employee: 5 people
  • Main merchandise: Wedding dress, Tuxedo

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Rooftecture HH in Haga-cho, Shiso-city, Japan by Endo Shuhei Architect Institute designed using Vectorworks

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

This project is a private residence which located in a lush surrounded by mountains in western Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. There are 4 large cherry trees planted in the center of this site which beautiful blooms every year. One moment of the nature scale created a powerful landscape beyond any architectural peculiarities space. The strong power also is the originality of this architecture.

Night view

  • Architect: Endo Shuhei Architect Institute
  • Name of Project: Rooftecture HH
  • Location: Haga-cho,Shiso-city, Hyogo-pref. Japan
  • Completion: December 2010
  • Principal use: House
  • Structure System: Wood
  • Extent: 1 story
  • Site Area: 1,175 m2
  • Building Area: 125.8m2
  • Total Floor Area: 125.2m2
  • Design Period: February 2009 – October 2009
  • Construction Period: July 2010 – December 2010
  • Client: Individual
  • Design: Endo Shuhei Architect Institute
  • Construction supervision: Endo Shuhei Architect Institute
  • Contractor: Yahata Kensetsu Co.,Ltd.
  • Photographer: Yoshiharu Matsumura
  • Software used: Vectorworks

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Looptecture Fukura in Minamiawaji, Japan by Endo Shuhei Architect designed using Vectorworks

Friday, March 25th, 2011

The function of this architecture is security and controlling all the floodgates located at port of Fukura, enlighten dangerous of the Tsunami for tourists, and use as a place of refuge in case of the Tsunami warning. For these reasons, ensure to keep the spaces of necessary and viewpoint for watching all over the port, also rational shape and structure to against of Tsunami and the drift came after disaster are necessary.

View form North

  • Architect: Endo Shuhei Architect
  • Project: Looptecture Fukura
  • Location: Minamiawaji-city, Hyogo-pref. Japan
  • Completion: March 2010
  • Principal use: Fukura Port Tsunami Disaster Prevention Station
  • Structure System: Steel
  • Extent: 2 stories
  • Site Area: 8,502m2
  • Building Area: 310m2
  • Total Floor Area: 376m2
  • Client: Hyogo- Prefecture
  • Design Period: March 2007 – February 2009
  • Construction Period: March 2009 – March 2010
  • Design / construction supervision: Endo Shuhei Architect Institute
  • Structure: Hirokazu Toki, S3 Associates / Ichiro Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Kamijima
  • Landscape: Takeda Planning and Design Office / Shiro Takeda, Yukako Iwata
  • Contractor: Moricho Corporation
  • Photography: Yoshiharu Matsumura
  • Software used: Vectorworks

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Bubbletecture H in Sayo-cho, Hyogo Pref., Japan by Shuhei Endo designed using Vectorworks

Friday, March 18th, 2011

The client requested that all people who will visit this place including the inhabitants of Hyogo prefecture, improves the interest for global environmental concerns and be able to experience various approaches as the place of environmental study. We thought about creating the new environment architectural space that could share the point of contact with nature and environment providing a keyword called “the circulation” in a relation with nature for the request.

Bubbletecture H

  • Architect: Shuhei Endo
  • Name of Project: Bubbletecture H
  • Location: Sayo-cho, Hyogo Pref., Japan
  • Completion: Feb 2008
  • Principal use: Institution and exhibition of earth environmental
  • Structure System: Wood + RC + SRC + S
  • Extent: One story
  • Site Area: 5000㎡
  • Building Area: 968㎡
  • Total Floor Area: 995㎡
  • Design period: 2005.5〜2006.3
  • Construction period: 2006.11〜2008.2
  • Software used: Vectorworks

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Forum Homini in Cradle of Humankind, South Africa by Activate Architects11

Friday, March 11th, 2011

This 14 roomed boutique hotel by activate architects (Edward Paes-Brooks & Michael Magner makes an important contribution to the architecture of the post apartheid period through the exemplary ways it explores two architectural themes – firstly the relationship between architecture and landscape, a preoccupation of a number of other buildings completed since 1994, and secondly, the relationship between architecture and iconography, also a frequently rehearsed theme.

Interior View

  • Architect: Activate Architects
  • Name of Project: Forum Homini
  • Location: Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
  • Client: Definite Properties (Pty) Ltd
  • Design Team: Edward Brooks, Michael Magner and Reon van der Wiel
  • Quantity Surveyors and co-principle agent: Brian Heineberg & Associates
  • Team: Colin Jones and Tapiwa Ankude
  • Structural and Civil Engineers: Pure Consulting
  • Team: Craig Thompson and Kevin Kincaid-Smith
  • Electrical Engineers: BFBA Consulting Engineers
  • Landscape Architects: Greeninc
  • Design Team: Anton Comrie and Annamari Comrie
  • Interior Design and Narrative: Activate Interiors
  • Design: Lisa Younger
  • Hydrological Engineers: Sivest (Johannesburg), Richard Hurst
  • Environmental Consultants: Sivest (Johannesburg), Dave Blair
  • Acoustic Engineer: Acusolv, Ben van Zyl
  • Audio Visual Consultant: Digital Fabric, Gavin Olivier
  • Lighting Designer: Congo Blue, Declan Randall
  • Main Contract: Interkor Construction cc
  • Electrical sub-contract: T & W Electrical Contractors (Pty) Ltd
  • Air conditioning sub-contract: Heat and Cool Comfort
  • Pool sub-contract: Little Wonder Pools
  • Landscape Contract: Horticare
  • Paint techniques sub-contract: Techniket
  • Stonecladding subcontract: QMR Construction
  • Kitchen design and supply: Foodserv
  • Waterproofing sub-contract: Engineered Linings
  • Joinery Suppliers: Nulu
  • Artists: Marco Cianfanelli, David Rossouw, Paul du Toit, Peter Mthombeni, Craig Bartlett, Christel Antonites, Karen Vermeulen
  • Software used: Drawn using Vectorworks and renderings are created using Photoshop

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A Forest For a Moon Dazzler in Playa Avellanas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architect

Friday, March 11th, 2011

The house was self built. The wood for the terraces and closet and kitchen walls was cut from trees on site; hence every piece is different from the next.

The Bamboo was cut from a family farm during full moon, then submerged in Diesel in order to cure it and dried under shade. Later it was cut into 15cm pieces and finished in maritime varnish.

The House

  • Architect: Benjamin Garcia Saxe
  • Site: Playa Avellanas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
  • Type Of Project: Residential (Coastal)
  • Total area: 100m2 of which 48m2 are terrace
  • Total cost: 40,000USD
  • Year of contest: N/A
  • Year of project: Jan 2010 (completion)
  • Year of construction: Built between 2008-2009
  • Client: Helen Saxe Fernandez 
  • Collaborators: none
  • Structural engineering: Benjamin Garcia Saxe
  • Installations engineering: Benjamin Garcia Saxe
  • Acoustic engineering: none
  • Lighting: none
  • Quantity surveyor: none
  • Contractor: Self Build
  • Photography: Benjamin Garcia Saxe, Andres Garcia Lachner, and Isabel Amador
  • Software: hand drawings, plans in Autocad, 3D in Vectorworks and  Sketchup
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