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.
“Keen-kichijoji” is a hair salon in Kichijoji, Tokyo, Japan.
Kichijoji is known as a place of a source of fashion, lifestyle, and subcultures, and particularly is a place where “oldness” and “newness” are fused, such as latest fashion shops are placed in an old shopping street.
This house is in the uptown residential area in Takarazuka city, located in halfway up the gentle slope.
The client would like their children to grow up freely and easily in the nature, as for how to spend time on holidays, the family would prefer to go on a picnic or a camp, rather not to go to the city, therefore the house is required to be easy, comfortable, compact, but open and rich. The plan was created with a wish that the daily life would foster sensitivity of the beauty of nature.
A new resort hotel “EPICALIS” is now opened at Shinwakanoura in Wakayama city, on the concept of “offering a dreamlike time and location as a resort in Greece, experience of open your body and heart, take you away from daily life”. This is the first case of revitalizing hotel designated by Wakayama city, in which working to create new attraction of the city. It is a five-story building made of reinforced concrete based around the color white, all 28 guest rooms provide a panoramic view of sea at Wakanoura.
Our corresponding area is a restaurant at the hotel.
Creche Ropponmatsu is a kindergarten located in a residential area in Fukuoka city, accepting capacity of 90 children, age between 0 to 5 years old. Emmanuelle designed the architecture, interior space, logos and graphical signage, with a vision to open a new kindergarten where children can grow up freely in mind and body. Running behind the colorful grove, this kindergarten gives opportunity for children to raise rich sensibility by feeling many colors wherever they are.
Japanese company “baLon” manages beauty salons in Japan. They have been working to create relaxing environments to make their visitors beautiful. The key point of this retail design is that they used wood and green. Their new shop “baLon.fem” in Fukuoka, however, is designed with an art gallery theme. They created “new relaxing space” for their target customers who love/follow new things/trends.
‘hair make ONE005’, is a beauty salon in Yokohama, Japan, the design aesthetic comprises of white walls and bare concrete the visitor with an elegant experience on the theme of a contemporary art gallery. The concept is carried consistently throughout the salon by the addition of abstract paintings and creating a partitionless openness.
Within this space, common colour elements prevail, the white of the ceiling and the matching floor and walls, are complemented by the colour of the abstract paintings and chairs, along with the gray of concrete and stone table tops. The desired effect is to create a harmonious environment and provide rhythmical visual enjoyment to visitors.
Additionally, thin framed furniture legs, allow natural light to spread throughout the salon making the whole space soft and bright guiding the visitor naturally to each section of the salon.
“SWEET ROOM” is a hair salon located in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
After passing through the entrance of modern design, there is a spacious space like a lounge in the salon. Although it is caused by removing the partition as much as possible, the result is not only to show the space more widely but also to spread the sunlight from the large windows to the room. Therefore, most partitions are also designed with thin frames.
Located behind the Ginza Kabuki-za (the Ginza Kabuki Theater), “Ginza Kashiwa” is accessible by elevator to the 11th floor of a building in the area. As soon as you walk through the entrance, an elegant and high class space appears, condensed in only 46 square meters. The scent of roasted chicken and charcoal are slightly floating in the air, inviting guests to the restaurant.
The counter, set up with a table top made of Japanese white wood, where yakitori dishes are served, is similar to a sushi counter, and a high-end service can be offered.
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