Projects
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Shirokane House
Tokyo, 2013
The site for this residence is surrounded on four sides by other buildings. Working within those conditions, the architects maximized the...
Architectural Lighting Group (ALG)
Forest / Floor
Nagano, 2001
Lighting design for a new guest house. This small guest house in resort area of Karuizawa represents Kuma’s unique a...
LEVEL Architects
House in Fukasawa
Setagaya, Tokyo, 2013
The design makes optimum use of a long, thin building site with a 3.6-meter frontage. While conveying a sense of freedom and relaxation, ...
LEVEL Architects
House in Ofuna
Kanagawa, 2012
By carving into this pyramid-shaped structure with its peak on the western side, the architects opened up lines of sight while maintainin...
LEVEL Architects
House in Shibuya
Tokyo, 2011
This home features a skateboard bank ramp and piano room. The skateboard ramp is connected to an exterior garden, as well as to the eleva...
LEVEL Architects
House in Monzennakacho
Tokyo, 2011
When the architects visited the building site for this home they were struck by the sight of the Oyoko River running just beyond the next...
LEVEL Architects
House in Fuji
Shizuoka, 2011
In order to take advantage of the unique landscape on the northern side of the site, which includes a sloped hillside as well as a park,...
LEVEL Architects
House in Todoroki
Tokyo, 2011
A 3.3-meter cantilever juts out over the entryway of this house, which has no windows in its façade. In contrast, a south-facing, V-shape...
LEVEL Architects
House in Oimachi
Tokyo, 2010
With a frontage measuring 3.6 meters and a depth of 11.8 meters, this type of small home is nicknamed an “eel’s cave” in Japanese. Despit...
APOLLO / Satoshi Kurosaki
Neut
Tokyo, 2012
The couple, both ophthalmologists, purchased a small, deep lot in a quiet residential area in order to build a house where they could enj...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Fukasawa House
Tokyo, 2011
Wood architecture involves inherent limitations, such as the fact that spans cannot easily exceed a certain width, but those limitations ...
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
House in Tendai
Kyoto, 2011
The client for this project dislikes direct sunlight, so the architects centered their design around his request that the house not be ov...
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
KRAMPON
Hyogo, 2012
This residence is built on a sloped property whose elevation rises 12 meters from bottom to top. The three volumes sit as if they had bee...
Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects
House in Nagaoka
Nagaoka-city, Niigata, 2010
The house is located at the center of the city that belongs to one of the regions with the heaviest snow in Japan. The old laundry facto...
Akio Nakasa / Naf Architect & Design
House Snapped
Saitama, 2012
Two buildings, large and small, stand on L-shape plot adjoining at the corner. The form of the two buildings comes is as if one building ...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Okazaki House
Aichi, 2012
The interior floor levels in this residence are adjusted in response to the elevation of the fields and Japanese garden adjoining it. A s...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Yatsugatake Villa
Yamanashi, 2012
Situated in the foothills of Mt. Yatsugatake, this vacation home gently incorporates the natural environment around it. The fan-shaped de...
Airhouse / Keiichi Kiriyama
House in Yoro
Gifu, 2012
Conversion of a farm equipment warehouse in Yoro District, Gifu Prefecture. The client wanted a space where he could always feel the pres...
Takeshi Hirobe Architects
Villa SSK
Chiba, 2012
The location for this project was adjacent to the calm and tranquil waters of Tokyo Bay. When we first visited the site, we were immediat...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Ogikubo House
Tokyo, 2010
In order to create a home that does not feel boxed in by its urban surroundings, the architects divided the volume into three boxes and a...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Tokyo Steel House
Tokyo, 2008
Because this project is located on a small lot with a narrow frontage (5m x 16m) in the center of Tokyo, it was important to find a way t...
no.555 / number fives architectural design office
NDA / PLANTER
Kanagawa, 2011
計画地は、”Yamate Bluff”と呼ばれる横浜山手の石積み擁壁で作られた斜面地。 港町を見下ろし、遠くには富士山、隣にはイタリア山庭園を借景として望める。 施主の要望でもある「周囲の借景と視線の配慮」という相反する要望、そして周辺の良好な環境とどう向き合うか。 まず、...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
M3・KG
Tokyo, 2006
"dialogue" between the old and the new "substance" This is a house to be built in Tokyo, for a movie producer couple. This architectur...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Sakura
Tokyo, 2006
A home office for a couple planned in a residential neighborhood in Tokyo. The site is situated in an area where land costs are among the...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Rainy/Sunny
Tokyo, 2008
Architecture in the Climate The site is there in a residential area in Tokyo, dense with low-rise buildings, located a little bit west...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Plus
Shizuoka, 2009
The mass of white The site locates on mountainside of Izu-san, where Pacific Ocean can be looked down on the south. The untouched w...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Tree House
Tokyo, 2009
Tree House This house for a couple is built in a residential area on a gentle hill in the northern Tokyo. The site is located at the t...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Near House
Tokyo, 2010
Nearness -the other side of smallness- The site is located in a dense residential area in Tokyo where inhabitants are allotted only li...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Valley
Shizuoka, 2011
A New Topology The site is long and narrow, running fifty meters north and south at four to five meters in width, switching back twice...
Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Geo Metria
Kanagawa, 2011
Structure of the land On a brow of mountain range of Hakone, along the Odawara plain is a site. It’s sunny rolling hillside where onc...
Love the Life
Ordinary House 01
Hyogo, 2009
Type : Residence Location : Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan Date of Completion : Oct. 2009 Site Area (SQM) : 87.6...