This design for Japan’s first hybrid timber high-rise hotel aims to maximize the use of local materials. With a concept of “experience Hokkaido,” the hotel features materials made and grown in the prefecture in everything from the building itself to the hotel’s management, construction materials to food.
Located on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, Niseko is renowned around the world for its winter powder snow. HANAZONO EDGE project lies at the core of one of four interlinked ski resorts, Niseko United, Hanazono Resort ski facilities, all of which are nestled within Niseko Annupuri mountain terrain.
The building features a café, restaurant and bar on the ground and upper levels, and offices and instructor waiting rooms in the basement. The new restaurant, along with the Park Hyatt Niseko Hotel and Residences, was completed at the same time as the former ski center (now a ski school), and surround the snow park at the foot of the slope, creating an integrated luxury resort. An iconic design was needed for the restaurant, as it directly faces the slope, assuming significant stature.
Article source: Keikichi Yamauchi Architect And Associates
Located about 3 km south of central Sapporo near the foothills of Mt. Maruyama, this residence is surrounded by single-family homes, high-rise condominiums, mid-rise apartment buildings, temples, and shrines. The white Court House stands among this jumble of development on a slightly irregular 200 m2 lot.
Article source: Hikohito Konishi / HIKOKONISHI ARCHITECTURE INC.
Tsutaya Books commissioned us to design the company’s twentieth store since its restructuring, located in the city of Ebetsu, Hokkaido. The site is adjacent to Ebetsu’s Four Seasons Promenade, a landscaped walking path, and faces a wooded area with many large trees. With a store concept of “a slow-life library in the woods,” our focus was on creating a comfortable space for customers to enjoy.
Total interior design solution for a hotel located within a National Park in Hokkaido, including lobby, restaurant, bar, guest rooms and connecting corridors, etc. The brief also covered graphic and sign design, artworks and interior features using local materials and crafts. Consideration of the natural setting was important.
A tenant building built on the site overlooks the Maruyama Park, the place of recreation and relaxation for Sapporo citizen. The client requested the portion of the building to be used as a residence in the future. Due to such request, the overall form of the building is designed to maintain the calm atmosphere as a residence, while the first floor and the second floor containing a store having higher transparency to be able to show the presence as the shop to outside.
This is a plan of a small atelier. The site is a quiet residential area located in the north of Sapporo City. The atelier was hoped for there as parting of an existing main building. As the program, the practice and the announcement association etc. of the space and flamenco for the painting were possible space, storage room, and small kitchen, the rest room, and the roasting room, etc. were requested.
This architecture possesses two functions: a confectionary shop and a concert hall. Both exterior and interior can change their atmosphere according to the two different functions as well as acoustics. In other words, this architecture has a “double face”. Also the client wanted use wood for the interior design to enhance the image of the shop, since Hokkaido is a leading forestry area.
Eight families use this apartment at four stories. The first floor and the second floor are flat house, and the third floor and the fourth floor are maisonette space.These space with a unique shape links to all the maisonette parts by a different plan. However, the outside of the building keeps very simple form. Only a position and the size of the window tell the neighborhood about an internal characteristic. Also approach, parking lot and the outside storeroom are at the position clearing the snow and a legal limit reasonably.
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