The client’s family has been living in the beautiful site surrounded by nature for generations for over 300 years. The client couple lived in the “main house” built two generations ago and an “annex” built by them, going back and forth between those two separate buildings. They wanted to have a new style of living so that they could have a space to invite their daughter’s family and grandchildren. I planned this extension and restoration to make it feasible for its rich heritage to pass on to the next generation while leaving their favorite “annex”.
Article source: ENDO SHOJIRO DESIGN + Tada Masaharu Atelier
We renovated the wooden two-story house in Kyoto to a complex facility (guest house, cafe and owner's residence). Existing buildings were rebuilt and rebuilt many times, so they had a strange shape. So we once organized the structure and added structure reinforcement. And we greatly reduced the first floor part of the building.
By making an alley there, wind, light and sight line have come to the back of the site. The alley is overflowing with greenery, a space where tourists and locals gather. Travelers cross the cafe´ in the alley and get to the entrance of the guest house. There is a small shrine in the courtyard. This is a shrine worshiped in the former building, we rebuilt.
The site is large enough to fit two buildings in a residential area in a corner of 90 tsubo. The most important requirement of the client is to make it a house that can be passed by car. First, we started with the plan of the road to solve this problem. In order to make use of the characteristics of the corner area and to be able to pass from either way, the car road which doubles as a garage enclosed by the roof and the wall is set up on the most longitudinal diagonal of the site. Dull a round window reminiscent of a ship window on a glowing outer wall, the appearance like the spaceship which appeared suddenly in a residential area was completed thus. As if the driveway of the hotel has become a garage, without bothersome crosscut, just stop the car in front of the entrance to complete all the operation involved in parking, the private house has realized a parking environment that does not see too much examples. Another is the distinction between symbiosis with pets and living space. While the notion that pets are a family is now common, client families should distinguish between pets and people's living space, and LDK and the entrance and the floor space following it are shared, and a portion of the LDK is occupied by a pet. Others separated clearly as the occupying part of the man. The floor of the common and pet occupied part employs linoleum made of natural material that is hard to harm even if the pet is licked, the occupied part of the person was used flooring and floor material that the tatami people feel comfortable.
We took on a restoration project for a coffee shop run by two brothers.
The building we were requested to renovate was a rental building which had traditionally been used as a base by a post office etc. for commercial purposes. The building was planned to be dismantled after more than 50 years of serving. In order to make it usable as a shop, reinforcement of pillars including the ones on the tilted second floor was essential. While the pillar reinforcement required the outer wall to be dismantled and repaired, it would put great pressure on the limited budget. Instead, we decided to make use of the big space which was too much for the brothers in the first place and build a new store space without fixing the outer wall. We drew inspiration from an episode that coffee production is agriculture and installed sheets of glass on a wooden frame to build a box-like structure resembling a greenhouse.
A detached house built in a quiet uphill neighborhood in Takarazuka.
This highly-elevated platform of residential land has the unique view of airplanes landing and taking off from Osaka Airport's runways as its everyday scenery.
This house was planned to make the most possible use of this view while reflecting the various scenes of the client's daily lifestyle.
99.2 m2 detached residence built in a northeastern corner lot.
Built according to a plan placing it in an urban area densely packed with 20-30 year old residences built in rows and with reconstructions gradually pushing forward forming a typical landscape you might see anywhere.
All the residences undergoing reconstruction around the area are 3 story residences due to height restrictions and come off as cramped, which made it difficult to see this style of construction as appealing.
We designed a store space for HAY TOKYO, a Danish interior design brand HAY's temporary store open for limited years in Tokyo. We are proposing a new store space that keeps growing and moving day by day and its contents increase little by little through collaboration with various designers. The space consists of what we call “interfaces” or movable furniture systems instigating people's activities. These “interfaces” are something between architecture and furniture: they are furniture systems which can be moved only by store administrators who know the mechanism of each system. One of the “interfaces” is a wall system composed of raceways perforated at every 1200mm along the entire length, installed at 1200-mm intervals at the height of 2750mm above floor level. Wall panels can be placed anywhere using freestanding free-standing steel pipes fixed in place using the holes in the raceways. The raceways carry not only wiring ducts containing lighting wiring but also power supply wiring connected to the floor using drum-type extension cords.
This is a nursery which parents found, who want to raise children in rich nature environment. To meet their expectation, by making use of rich nature surrounding it, the nursery is planned to design where children can feel nature in a whole day, and play excited and stimulating, so that they can develop their sensibility and creativity.
This house stands in a new residential district in the mountains, which was put up for sale in the 1990s.
The region has a slightly cool and wet climate, when looking at the other houses in the vicinity; you can see that many of them feature lean-to-sheds, designed as small sunrooms, made by enclosing a back entrance or veranda with corrugated polycarbonate panels. These so-called ‘terrace enclosures’ are often used as storehouses in winter, or as places for drying laundry – a clever feature, that we realized represents, a certain style shared among the various new mass-produced houses of this residential district.
A private house in Gifu prefecture which consists of traditional Japanese rooms and modern style LDK (Living, Dining and Kitchen). Japanese rooms are to be used in multiple way, sleeping, chilling, funeral etc. Doors of Japanese rooms are shoji of “taiko-bari” (wrapped by Japanese paper like a drum) so that frames of shoji are blurred in daytime and clarified at night.
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