A house on a hinadachi lot where two families live in harmony with the shape of the land.
This two-family house for elderly parents and their son is located on a terrace-shaped land in the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture. The owner was considering a two-family house to look after his parents.
Two-family house in Yawata– Farmland to be updated/Nagoya to be built Construction: New construction / wooden construction Purpose: Residential/Two households Location: Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture Number of floors: 2nd floor Structural design: EQSD First Class Architect Office / Yosuke MisakiPhoto: Sasa no Sourasha / Yohei Sasakura Selected for Wood Design Award 2023Roofed Architecture Contest 2023 U-40 Excellence Award
The site gently slopes down to a residential area with a forest in the background. Although there are adjacent residential areas, you will be in deep woods and even have a chance to encounter antelope and raccoons as you walk toward the back of the house.
This is a renovation project for a 44-year-old apartment. The owner is an enthusiast of weaving wooden basket bags. The owner’s requests were to have an earthen floor space that could be used as a studio, to enjoy the views of the river and cityscape from the windows, and to optimize the living space compactly.
【Highlights】
A spacious south-side earthen floor space that can serve as a studio, gallery or dining area.
The corridor provides openness while retaining some concealment, with the deeper space unfolding as one moves.
Curtains can enclose the built-in bed to become a cave-like resting area.
The peg walls allow flexible mounting of tools, knick-knacks, clocks, paintings etc.
This renovation project for cosmetics maker KOSÉ Corporation entailed a remodeling of the firm’s 1,000m² office space on the 7th floor of a high-rise building in the bustling Nihonbashi neighborhood of Tokyo. Its completion also coincided with KOSÉ’s 75th founding anniversary.
Facility name: KOSÉ Nihonbashi Office Location: 3-6-2 Nihonbashi, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo Principal use: Office Client: KOSÉ Corporation Job Scope: Interior Renovation Project Total area: 1000m2 Renovated Area: 7th floor Construction period: From November 2019 to May 2020 Construction: TOKYU LAND CORPORATON + OKAMURA Co.Ltd. Furniture Maker：TANK Photo Credits: Nikken Sekkei Ltd (more…)
This nursery, holding a maximum of 117 children was built in Fuji Yoshida. The site with more than 10,000 sqm is rich in nature with lakes and trees. With the owner’s educational policy of “Play to the fullest in the nature of Fuji Yoshida, in rain or snow, even getting covered with mud.”, the project utilized nature where children can live comfortably in green rich site.
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A contemporary educational facility using two-way CLT flat slabs for the first time in Japan
Showa Gakuin Elementary School West Wing is an expansion of an existing school to accommodate an increasing number of students. In Japan, the trees planted on a large scale during the postwar and high-growth periods are now mature enough to be used as building materials, and it has become a crucial social issue to protect forest resources through a proper harvesting and planting cycle. Nikken Wood Lab, a department of Nikken Sekkei specializing in the research and development of wooden architecture and wood structures, pursued sustainability and explored new possibilities for CLT as mass timber*1 with the use of domestic wood in this project.
Article source: Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES/Architects Co., Ltd
This is a house for a small family of husband+wife+child, located in the outskirts of Nara.
A parking space facing the road in front, extends the full width of the front opening, so as to accommodate all the cars for daily use and the motor bikes for the owner’s hobby. This is why the façade is set back to give space to the parking area. The building itself projects a closed image, except for the hobby area on the first floor, which is a widely open space with glass openings facing the collection of moterbikes.
This project was for the relocation and construction of a new research & development center for Japanese pharmaceutical company Zenyaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2020.
In recent years, the research environment has become an increasingly diverse landscape, showing growth in collaborations with outside companies such as open labs, cooperative efforts with venture companies, and the outsourcing of research work. More than ever, higher performance and quality environments are required of labs, making it extremely important for research institutes to make connections beyond previous boundaries and with other researchers.
Mindful of this, an attempt here was made to convert the existing “closed/isolated” building type to a “closed lab open institute” type of structure. Although the term “open” is used rather loosely in the architecture industry, the conception held that it would carry great meaning pertinent to the building type of a laboratory.
Mori Building Co., Ltd., a leading urban developer, unveiled on January 24th, 2023, new renderings and identity of Toranomon Hills, and announced the Fall 2023 opening date of Toranomon Hills Station Tower (the Station Tower).
Located in Toranomon Hills “Global Business Center” near Kasumigaseki adjacent to ARK Hills, a lifestyle and cultural center, and within walking distance from Roppongi Hills “Cultural Heart of Tokyo” and Azabudai Hills “Modern Urban Village,”the Station Tower will stand at the terminus of Shintora-dori Avenue, Tokyo’s newly configured axial thoroughfare connecting Tokyo Bay to city center. The tower will add to, and connect, a series of freestanding mixed-use developments to establish Toranomon Hills as the new global hub of Tokyo.
With that one word from the client, the story for the construction to be built here was decided, but in order to realize this, it is necessary to have a “rational way of building on land”.
This is a private residence built on a slope 4 m down from the road toward the pond.
In the case of such sloping land, it can be said that the general solution is to create a semi-underground RC frame that withstands soil pressure from above and takes into account the fit on the waterproof.
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