By standardizing the design specifications in the type conformity approval system, applications for confirmation and inspections are simplified for customizations under certain conditions. Home builders have been taking advantage of this system to mass produce houses that meet clients’ requirements. In this extension project, the existing part of the house was a 13-year-old type conformity approval house, built by Misawa Homes Co., Ltd. Located at a corner site in a suburban residential area in Tama Hills, the house had a hair salon on the ground floor. Regular customers of this private salon mainly consisted of local residents. The client decided to expand the building, putting future business expansion in perspective.
The concept of this project is to build a nursery according to the terrain. In other words, instead of digging on the slope and violently placing a rectangular parallelepiped building, we decfined the shape of the building along the slope.
This building is a nursery for about 140 children aged 0 to 6 years.
We arranged seven children's rooms in the shape of a trace of the site, and placed stairs at the place where there was a small mountain road originally.
The site is in a community in Toyama with a houses and shops sprawling in a relatively relaxed manner. There is a playground in the neighboring area on the southeastern side, and the Tateyama mountain range can be seen beyond that. We placed an L-shape volume like the chumon-zukuri (a traditional L-shaped style house) inside the trapezoidal-shaped site, and arranged a child room and garage that can be used as a future shop facing a front road on the west side. Considering the snowfall, taking the distance to the north side neighbor, as well as setting the center of living space on the second floor on the southeastern park side, enable the house to be open to the park side while securing privacy.
A hilly area close to Sakura IC on the East Kanto Expressway. It is a plan of a weekend residence built on the site surrounded by fields and mixed forests.
The client family living in the city center was purchased this site and the surrounding large farmland, and was determined to grow vegetables and fruits and construct a villa for free play and learning in the nature of children.
The menu offers meat dishes cooked using a dynamic flame paired with select wines with character. Deliverables included a space that would embody and convey this appetizing experience.
We sought to fill the entire space with the energy resonating from the intensity of the flame and diverse colors of the wine.
The ceiling plane reveals a multilayered body of flame energy by combining red latticework conveying the intensity of the steeply spiraling flame as well as red plates coated with a special finish representing the strong flickering of the flame.
An interior and exterior design project for an eleven-story office building located in the Kojimachi neighbourhood in central Tokyo.
Typical office buildings are usually built as closed-off blocks with artificial climate control that do not share any real physical connection with their exterior environments. Therefore, in the “Kojimachi Terrace” design, the external elements were taken into account to allow for a more physical experience of the outdoors, like witnessing the changing weather and yearly seasons.
The residential area where the site is located abuts a high-speed motorway in the Nishi ward of Niigata, Japan. The area was embanked with concrete retaining walls over 50 years ago and with age, these walls have weakened. Our design approach to alleviate the stresses incurred by these walls was to reduce the soil inside the site and convert the space into a courtyard. We chose to create a scenic space within these walls for the generation to come, who will inherit this site for the next 50 years.
Well-planned houses are sometimes too close to human lives. While they are comfortable, I feel that too much planning has the risk of forcing a pre-defined lifestyle onto the residents. Perhaps if we start the process from a point not too close to the client's initial wishes, and seek an autonomous solution while considering various conditions, we will ultimately enable them to live more freely and actively.
The project site is located in an old rural settlement near Kameda station in Konan ward, Niigata, Japan. The area has relatively recently started the process of renewal, transitioning into a dense residential area. As the development progresses, the form and the location of waterways and roads modify; generating ever changing plot characteristics.
Conventionally, a single estate would contain an assemblage of buildings such as the main manor, a granary and farm land. And even though the roads of the village were narrow, each residence contained a buffer space; the link between daily living and the agricultural work. Through this, every estate was connected to the village nurturing a strong community bond. This project site was also previously such a site, possessed with agricultural, waterway – road and buffer area.
This is a project of a building for rental office spaces and commercial spaces, facing the moat of the Imperial Palace and located close to Ichigaya station.
The south side of the site is on a street and the north side of the site faces the moat. To take advantage of this location, we laid out the elevator core aside from the main access from north to south.
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