It is a clinic to be built in Kanoya city of Osumi Peninsula. Because there is a level difference of almost one floor on the site, we had a structure to receive earth pressure at the semi-underground part, and the first floor part of the clinic was able to be an extensive flat surface incorporating the courtyard etc. In the bird’s-eye view, the volumes with different elongated height and height jumped against the steps are connected while being shifted, causing a change in the inner space such as a corridor with a high ceiling height, a waiting wait.
It’s a large-scale renovation work of the monorail station. Because it’s a tourist facility and can’t be closed, we did construction work leaving only the existing platform. Planned with one structure to adapt to the existing law in the extension part. The main structure is steel frames, the secondary structure is wood, creating a rustic atmosphere even in large spaces. In an open space with a roof, it’s possible to cope with sudden climate change on the Japan Sea side such as wind and rain and snow.
This building was a shop and a house with an frontage of 2.7 m and a depth of 11.7 m.
We renovated this to the guest house.
First of all, in order to eliminate the psychological feeling of pressure due to the narrowness of this width, we left all of the third floor leaving the structure.
This is a remodeling of a wooden house in an ordinary dense residential area in Tsurugashima, Kanto region. It was built 33 years ago on a backland site that connects to the road via access of only 2 meters wide. Before remodeling, it had a small bright garden on the south side. There was a field in the neighboring land that faces the garden, where open sky could be seen. However, it was planned to be remodeled for residential development. Therefore it could be imagined that it would turn to a garden surrounded by houses, which is never a good environment.
There is a town that flourished over 150 years ago, The town’s name is Sawara.(Chiba,Japan) The area is now decided on a preservation district of traditional wooden buildings. the mission is to remodel the old reinforced concrete futon store in that area into a cafe.
This building was sufficiently old as a building of RC (nearly 50 years old), but I heard that there was a strange impression compared with the surrounding wooden building.
It is a seaside villa repair plan. The premises was an ordinance that made it impossible to build and proceeded with a plan not requiring confirmation. Sand is dancing with strong sea breeze, and it is a tough condition that sand is blown indoors from the window.
The garage hut facing the sea became a barrier to the garden and the repair to fill the gap was repeated, but it obstructed the view to the sea. Re-acquisition of the view to the sea, renovation to the place where the former earth which was the living room can be used integrally with the garden was desired.
Kyoto Xiaoman is a Taiwanese tea salon and gallery built by renovating a machiya, or Japanese traditional townhouse built near Kyoto Goen more than 80 years ago.
The ownerrequest was to create a simple, delicate space where salon visitors can find scenes and backgrounds of Taiwanese teas.
Just as she weaves background stories and origins of teas while serving them, she desired a place where visitors can not merely enjoy drinking tea but also explore the world of tea—taste and smell, mountains and forests, lively alpine animals and plants, and lives of harvesters and their history.
The facade and interior design of the first flagship store of The Ginza in Japan, a subsidiary of Shiseido. The facility serves as a multipurpose space with the shop space on the first floor, a membership lounge on the second floor, and an event space in the basement.
Much alike their basic skin care products―the signature products of The Ginza, the aim was to create a place where visitors rediscover their true beauty, reflecting themselves in “mirrors” applied in various forms within the facility.
This house is designed for a couple and their little son. The site is a gentle hillside in the south of Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The external shape is a simple square of 8.1 m × 8.1 m, but it has a complicated internal structure. We designed four small houses that extended from each vertex of a large house. The breakdown of four small houses is garage and bathroom, two bedrooms, Japanese style room and closet, and balcony. Because they all have different volumes, the gap between houses becomes a distorted crossroad like an alley. Residents can move in and out small houses and crossroads. It is a scenery like in a village. We designed the exterior as a simple residential icon, but it is wearing traditional cedar boards. We designed the interior as a complex village, but it is expressed as minimal white cubes. In the suburbs of Japan developed by urban planning in the 1970s including Sakai City, residential areas installed next to traditional villages. The boundary between the two communities has becoming ambiguous for 50 years. We thought that it was the most suitable architecture for this site to coexist some contradictory conditions.
Visual Display* starts a new journey with Slowear Venezia that begins with the opening of Tokyo — Marunouchi and aims to renew and reinforce the image of the brand while respecting the values that till now have distinguished it: tailoring, Italianness, style and hospitality.
“A constantly evolving project aimed at creating a set of feasible and coherent solutions to be used from time to time according to the individual locations (…)” Visual Display
“Less austerity, more eclecticism, the new soul of Slowear Venezia stores is unrestrained from certain patterns and is enriched with new gestures, materials, suggestions.” Visual Display
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