The site is faced with the street which, as one of the old Five Routes, used to be busy and crowded with many merchants and travelers. To the north of the house is a river running beyond a road. The location is blessed with a nice mountain view in the distance.
The building is designed to evoke an image of traditional house that draws attractiveness of the location, while embodying modern configuration at the same time.
There are two houses in a quiet residential area with verdant greenery. One is my own house and the other is my sister-in-law`s family. While the two families wanted to live independently, they also wished to support one another and desired to establish a common space such as a garden and atelier to enjoy a lifestyle that allows for a sense of expansion that is difficult to achieve as a single household.
As one of the three companies that originated Pokémon, Creatures Inc. engages mainly in the development of Pokémon Trading Card Game, digital games development that derives from the Pokémon video game series, and the production of 3D modeling and motion design of Pokémon. The project was to design an entrance and meeting space for their new office.
On a small narrow plot (4.9 m wide, 14.7 m deep) in metropolitan Tokyo sits a wooden house. The clients are an up-and-coming manga artist, her partner, and two owls who are the new additions to the family. The manga artist made three requests: First, the house should accommodate the entire process of the artist’s work, from creative concept to completion, meetings, and giving media interviews. Second, the house should be compact and should not open to the outdoors too much. Lastly and most importantly, the house should spark inspiration for creativity. Envisioned as “a building that floats a few centimeters above our daily lives,” the architect strived to ensure that the dwelling is still tied to our tangible daily life but evokes a sense of fictional narrative.
We designed our own residence and office on a narrow lot in the heart of the city where old and new streets are mixed together. Since it is in front of a train station and has the potential to be used for a variety of purposes, we thought we should create a place whereabouts rather than a house. It is a comfortable place to live that will continue to exist even after it leaves our hands and changes its use and owner.
As a method of creating a place to live, we did not construct the space itself, but tried to consciously embody each of the casual behaviors of people and make the space stand up. The form used in this project was the bay window.
Article source: Yutaka Yoshida Archtect & Associates
The site is located in a dense neighborhood of low-rise postwar houses, a short distance from the streetcar line that connects central Hiroshima to the Port of Hiroshima. The site, where the client was born and raised, originally consisted of a two-story wooden house that had been extended and reconstructed to fill the entire site, in close proximity to an adjacent house. For the reconstruction, the design direction was set to actively create an exterior space in the densely populated surrounding environment, and to realize a rich, expansive, and continuous living space to the exterior.
We planned a three-story tenant building in a very small site with 28 m2. A landing for the stairs was created to match the deformed site, and the space was effectively used as a dining space with a counter.
In addition, the space under the stairs was planned to be used as a toilet and storage for each tenant.
The movement of people going up and down the stairs creates the façade of the building.
This is a kindergarten and nursery built newly for 125 children with the concept ‘Full of adventurous spirit and curiosity, surrounded by Tateyama mountain range’. From this site, people can look over the Tateyama mountain range which has been familiar to local people in Toyama. In the Tateyama mountain range, there are many kinds of climbing routes such as a rugged mountain path, open and wide, steep, gently sloped. Moreover, in these routes, we can meet various animals, plants, and beautiful nature.
[A facility for the next generation that aims to contribute to employees, the industry, and the community]
Nakagawa Century Memorial Hall is a complex facility that includes headquarters offices, a training center, and a cafeteria. The cafeteria is open to the public.
A house built in the suburbs of Aichi Prefecture. The owner had a large number of images of the house, including furniture, lighting, various finishes, equipment, storage ideas, and use of the window area, which he had collected from SNS and magazines. The images were not always consistent; some were of bare concrete exteriors, some were of wood-paneled exteriors, some were of cool minimalist interiors, and some were of chaotic interiors. Convenient and rational storage ideas and tasteful antique furniture were equally aligned. These were fragments of requests for an ideal life, and I knew that they would continue to change day by day after the completion of the construction. Therefore, rather than trying to compose a space by selecting and choosing from a large number of images, we began the design process by considering the framework in which the various elements would overflow and resonate with each other.
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