Walking down a Midosuji main street to the area with mid-to-high-rise residential and commercial buildings, suddenly a residential area filled densely with two storey wooden houses appeared. YMT-house is located in this area and measures just 49.5 square meter with 4m open width and 11m depth. In this limited condition, the client firstly required spacious living room for family of four, and then private rooms, enough storage, and the rooftop. To enrich and enhance life style while meeting all these requirements, the project focuses on the scale difference between each room.
This is a situation of owning a house with the attributes of being in the “center of downtown”, “a renovation of an old house” and “a connected town house”. This is opposed to the more common houses in Japan, which is usually, “rural”, “newly built” and “detached”.
Toyosaki is a town located in a 15 minute walking distance from Umeda station, a main hub of transportation in North Osaka. It is also a 10 minute walking distance to the nearest subway station and is therefore, very convenient. In the area, there is a main street but also back streets where these older connected town houses exists.
Article source: DDAA / Daisuke motogi Design And Architecture
We designed a free-address office space for DAQ, a company running iPhone accessories brands Andmesh and Squair, converted from a former French restaurant. The spacious open-plan office seating 24 employees and the cluster of small rooms including a meeting room and executive’s room are divided by a black perforated partition wall. We decided to adopt the open plan to bring in natural light through the south and east windows to illuminate the entire office but wanted to avoid providing monotonous seating where each seat is differentiated solely by the amount of sunlight it receives. Taking advantage of the free-address system, we designed various types of seats with different characters including sun-lit window seats with a view; tall desks where one can work standing up or sitting on a high stool; cubicle-type seats (designed in the same size as typical cubicles in manga cafes in Japan) for those who want to concentrate or work alone, in addition to standard desks and chairs.
This home in a high-density residential district in Tokyo’s suburbs was commissioned by a designer at a large real estate company. The roof and exterior walls are constructed from metallic grey Galvalume which both forms a structural skin and protects the privacy of the residents by shielding the first floor from visibility from the street. A large opening in the roof brings in abundant natural light and makes the compact space feel more expansive.
Walking into the urbanization control area from the inner city of Fukushima City through Prefectural Road 4, a peaceful rural landscape with a number of long stone-built warehouses come into sight, along with apple and pear farms. The owner’s grandfather also built a magnificent stone warehouse in 1973 and has been taking care of it well ever since.
It is a house for young couples have a hobby of motorcycle, and it’s located of yokohama-shi, kanagawa, Japan.
A site becomes into a tiered stand where old retaining wall starts over two steps. Furthermore, this site has various legal limitation and it was able to be the very important design element that talks with the administration.
At the end of a town behind Tokyo’s suburbs, a small road leads us between detached houses —which could all have starred in the Truman Show— towards an unexpected opening: instead of more of the same staged happiness, we are driving towards a green reservoir.
We engaged in designing a house of a plaster craftsman to be built on a land facing an alley along which traditional houses stand.
You would be impressed with the beauty of nature found in farms spreading in the north side of the land. Meanwhile, the land is adjacent to the alley in its south, along which houses stand.
We planned to create inside the building an outdoor-like space that would smoothly fuse with the rural scenery in the north of the land.
This House is built in a ravine a little uphill from the coastline to the mountains and sandwiched between the mountains and mountains.
This plan is a step by the existing stone cliff. In the basement floor using this step, the garage and the study space are planned, and the living space is planned on the first floor.
The living room on the first floor is continuous with the deck terrace on the sea side, and can enjoy the environment in an open space.
Article source: DDAA / Daisuke motogi Design And Architecture
(This room has pockets.)
Kobo Abe, a Japanese writer, was known for his super-messy room, and he was said to have scattered cigarette ashes all over the floor when his ashtray got full. Actually, I am not good at tidying up, although not as bad as the writer himself. I often tell my staff and students to “organize thoughts”, but when it comes to myself, I am not good at “organizing” things nor swiftly putting away things after using them.
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