This is wooden residence with café in Tokyo, Japan.
Owner’s family lives in the upper story of the cafe. There is a story that used to be important “well” for the people who lives in the area. Owner’s Grandfather had opened restaurant, which named “IDUMI”, which means “well” in Japanese. After he had passed away, his grandchild opened coffee café, take over the store name “IDUMI” with grand respect.
The concept of this café is to help enrich the neighborhood’s life, with the aim to enrich people´s day taking one cup of coffe.
Following that concept, there is no store sign at the facade,you can perceive the café with the simplicity of the logo.
This renovation transformed part of a 33-year-old building in Shibaura, Tokyo, that once provided warehousing and R&D space for a leading electronics company. Design of the 150 m2 area was also undertaken to attract a future corporate tenant who will use all 1,380 m2 of the floor space.
A primary consideration was that any walls erected should not impede airflow of the central air conditioning, which suggested that we should approach the project by redefining the role of office walls.
The name Warehouse Market Tokyo ReBar derives from the rebar used.
This is a small three-story apartment. A small site (58.66 m2) has eight micro dwelling units with a floor area of 10 m2 or so. The room is equipped with a small shower unit, a space-saving toilet, a mini-kitchen, a loft bed and so on, enough to prepare for tomorrow's activities. Residents based on this small space, Tokyo can be shared.
This is about 10 minutes by subway in the center of Tokyo. It is in an area where the ground is weak and small wooden houses are densely packed.
In order to secure the safety of this building and to construct it economically and rationally,
(1) examination of construction technology to be adopted,
(2) operation of laws to be complied with,
Italiana Tavola D’oro was planned at the restaurant floor of a department store in Ginza.
The site was at the rearmost section of the restaurant floor, and had L-shaped with a narrow front. This meant it was difficult for people to even know the entrance was there.
The theme was how do we make the restaurant interior feel open, bright and easy to see?
Particularly, what was the way to make the appearance of a busy & lively shopfront?
As a symbol of Edogawa district, a complex facility “Tower Hall Funabori” is located at the center of the city. “edomachi”shop was planned at a corner of the public space on the 1st floor of “Tower Hall Funabori” which specializes in local products of Edogawa. Edogawa district has many traditions, cultures and crafts with a long history. They are still made by artisans who succeed old technique passed from generation to generation. This space was designed as a place to introduce and re-recognize the culture that Edogawa district is proud of to the world by presenting and selling handicrafts of Edogawa towards Tokyo 2020 Olympic game. The theme of this store is a bridge that connects the present and the future. “edomachi” will function, keeping the culture of this area as a information dispatch base.
I started to teach as a professor in Waseda University Art and Architec-ture school since 2015 and it takes too much hours to commute there from Yokohama. That’s the reason I decided to construct my second house,” LOVE2 HOUSE ”. I got 31.41m2 lot in Tokyo and immediately started to design 2 stories house.
My wife had been reading the book at that time about Edo-period which says a family of 4 lives in 9.6m2 house called “Nagaya (one story small apartment)” at that time.
After reading the book she said to me ”18m2 is quite huge for two of us!” Then I shifted to design a single story house of 18.84m2.
By standardizing the design specifications in the type conformity approval system, applications for confirmation and inspections are simplified for customizations under certain conditions. Home builders have been taking advantage of this system to mass produce houses that meet clients’ requirements. In this extension project, the existing part of the house was a 13-year-old type conformity approval house, built by Misawa Homes Co., Ltd. Located at a corner site in a suburban residential area in Tama Hills, the house had a hair salon on the ground floor. Regular customers of this private salon mainly consisted of local residents. The client decided to expand the building, putting future business expansion in perspective.
An interior and exterior design project for an eleven-story office building located in the Kojimachi neighbourhood in central Tokyo.
Typical office buildings are usually built as closed-off blocks with artificial climate control that do not share any real physical connection with their exterior environments. Therefore, in the “Kojimachi Terrace” design, the external elements were taken into account to allow for a more physical experience of the outdoors, like witnessing the changing weather and yearly seasons.
This is a project of a building for rental office spaces and commercial spaces, facing the moat of the Imperial Palace and located close to Ichigaya station.
The south side of the site is on a street and the north side of the site faces the moat. To take advantage of this location, we laid out the elevator core aside from the main access from north to south.
We designed a store space for HAY TOKYO, a Danish interior design brand HAY's temporary store open for limited years in Tokyo. We are proposing a new store space that keeps growing and moving day by day and its contents increase little by little through collaboration with various designers. The space consists of what we call “interfaces” or movable furniture systems instigating people's activities. These “interfaces” are something between architecture and furniture: they are furniture systems which can be moved only by store administrators who know the mechanism of each system. One of the “interfaces” is a wall system composed of raceways perforated at every 1200mm along the entire length, installed at 1200-mm intervals at the height of 2750mm above floor level. Wall panels can be placed anywhere using freestanding free-standing steel pipes fixed in place using the holes in the raceways. The raceways carry not only wiring ducts containing lighting wiring but also power supply wiring connected to the floor using drum-type extension cords.
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