“STREAMER COFFEE KYO” is a cafe in Takayama city, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Takayama city is an area where Japanese traditional townscapes, such as buildings over 300 years ago, are preserved, and there has been still many old-fashioned stores with the Noren* in the town. According to the characteristics of such areas, the cafe also installs the Noren at the entrance.
*Noren is a Japanese shop curtain with its emblem and name hung at the entrance as indicating the category of the business and long-standing history of the shop.
“Sankeys PENTHOUSE” is a music bar in Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Harajuku is known as the center of Japan’s highest cultural trends and fashion styles from teenage to adults. In such a place, the bar is designed based on the concept to provide a place that visitor can meet new cultures and communities with enjoying music, cocktails, and food.
“DUCT COFFEE LAB” is a cafe in Daikanyama, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
The Daikanyama area is known as one of the most fashionable places in Tokyo to source cultural trends. In such area, the cafe is designed modernly based on the concept as a laboratory of coffee.
The aim of this project is how to approach to non-architectural educated people, using body expression to share the space and experiences. It began with the dialogue of architect’s body and the site environment, then practice to share it through the simple gesture to the client and the constructor.
On this project, it creates semi-exterior living spaces corresponding to the subtropical climates. The rich semi-exterior space consists of pilotis, void, and terrace, which are above the underground parking, fits in the sloped surroundings becomes the triple stilt house.
A small residence for clients living in Tokyo and Yamanashi two bases.
The client usually lives in a detached house in the center of Tokyo but while planning the child rearing of three children, the plan started to feel a little disabled part in the life of only Tokyo.
Although it is a large premises compared to the city center, since the area around the site is an area dotted with villas and residents’ settlements, it was requested to establish an appropriate relationship with the surrounding environment.
The house is for a family of four locates in a quiet residential area of Kyoto. In the middle of the building, there is a spot garden where planted a bushy Oldham blueberry. Spotted Garden is a one of a characteristic of old Kyoto houses which delivers gentle light and comfortable breeze inside the room while keeping moderate privacy. From the high ceiling living room where family members get together naturally, you can view the green Oldham blueberry in the spot garden. Used delicate steel lattice and steel sash consists of a flat 9 millimeter bar as a facade and tryed to harmonies with the beautiful cityscape of Kyoto that inherits tradition. Hope that the house inherit the traditional and beautiful cityscape to the next generation.
This architecture might remind you of the images of
Kanoko, a fawn drinking water, “Kanoko” means a young deer in Japanese
Like a collar of a Kimono
Like Origami , folding paper work
A huge thumb pointing to the ground
An asymmetric shape
The site is situated on a corner, so you can see two facades of this building. This is the first building that catches youｒ eyes when you get out of the station. Accordingly, we have designed this building not just as a simple cube, but as a funny and interesting form composed by two sides of the façade in order to make people create various images. It is designed sharply, clearly and dynamically.
‘pata pata’ and ‘waku waku’ for ‘la cienega and cafe’ in matsumoto designed by the architects saeco kobayashi and taishin shiozaki (atelierco architects), ‘la cienega and cafe’ is located in the center of matsumoto, a city in nagano prefecture, japan. the existing building was designed in 1998 by the architect hideo yasui to house a fashion boutique. more recently the client requested designs for furniture and the interior of a new cafe situated in the loft, with a provision for displaying lots of small objects and accessories.
We tried to interpret traditional gabled roofs in new way, because of Kyoto’s townscape codes, within the framework of modern dwellings. As Laugier’s “Primitive Hut, “gabled roofs hold a sort of fundamental appeal. However, we felt there was a problem in their strong axis of the direction and the fact that sunlight in the house is distributed unevenly. Additionally, we also saw an issue in dealing with the gable’s outward thrust.
Total interior design solution for a hotel located within a National Park in Hokkaido, including lobby, restaurant, bar, guest rooms and connecting corridors, etc. The brief also covered graphic and sign design, artworks and interior features using local materials and crafts. Consideration of the natural setting was important.
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