Projects
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
House in Miyayamadai
Osaka, 2009
Across the street from this property is a park with groves of plum and cherry blossom trees. We aimed to incorporate views of this landsc...
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
Tutanaga House
Osaka, 2010
This home is located in a crowded residential district of the city. Our goal was to create a space filled with indirect sunlight, while a...
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
Trapezoid
Hyogo, 2007
Building codes required that this structure, which combines a residence and a pottery studio, take on a trapezoidal shape. Within those c...
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
House in Shinkitajima
Osaka, 2003
Inside this very simple 9.4 x 9.4 cube, with both walls and floors composed of 250mm panels, we created an unexpectedly complex space.
Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates
Atelier in Hiuna
Hiroshima, 2003
A single-story combined studio and residence for two potters. In the horizontal dimension of the house we sought a maze-like layout, whil...
Osamu Nishida / ondesign partners
An Urban Slit That Is Taken Into The House
Tokyo, 2012
A site of only 9 tsubo (3,600 sq.m.) in frontage and 8,300 sq.m. in depth in the densely built-up wooden houses of Nezu, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo...
Osamu Nishida / ondesign partners
House With Eaves And An Attic
Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 2011
This area has many slopes, and more than half of the area of this site is covered by a cliff. Sloping land has often been left untouched ...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Tamaranzaka House
Tokyo, 2009
Due to Tokyo’s high land prices, plot sizes become reduced as a matter of necessity. What’s more, buildings often become even...
Aisaka Architects Atelier
Courtyard House in Yokohama
Kanagawa, 2007
Courtyard house with Various Contradictions built in suburbs of Yokohama . We patiently adjusted all of the conflicting elements at vario...
Aisaka Architects Atelier
House in Yokosuka
Kanagawa, 2009
The building is located on a hill near Hayama, and the top-floor living room and terrace exceed the existing building between it and the ...
Aisaka Architects Atelier
House in Fujisawa
Kanagawa, 2004
"A house is a machine for living in" However it's not a sufficient condition, it still is a necessary condition. A house must be able t...
Maniera Architect & Associates
Cluster House
Osaka, 2002
This house located in Matsuzakicho, Abeno-ku. The residence are married couple in forties and 2 growing children. ...
Maniera Architect & Associates
House with a Little Stream
Osaka, 2010
Near Asuka Taishi-cho called “Near Asuka”or“valley in a king mausoleum”is the treasure house of history where it's eminent even in Osaka....
Maniera Architect & Associates
Floating Roof
Hyogo, 2009
The fashionable streets where Ashiya-city was brought by modernism culture between Osaka and Kobe is located in the middle but different...
Maniera Architect & Associates
Green House
Nara, 2010
4 clients are an adjacent site for parents' family and a continued large family in the family and the north side. A site is the area with...
Maniera Architect & Associates
Liason House
Kobe, 2004
A site is located in Higashinada-ku, Kobe-shi Uozaki, and Sumiyoshi river is flowing around frontal road. This whole is maintained gradua...
Shigeru Ban Architects
Crescent House
Shizuoka, 2008
This site is located on the slope in the north side of villa area in South Hakone. The scenery of the north side is rare because of its o...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Lotus House
Eastern Japan, 2005
This house sits beside a quiet river, deep in the mountains. My concept for the project was to lay waterways between the river and the ho...
no.555 / number fives architectural design office
IDY / house spent with park
Chiba, 2008
敷地は、幹線道路から少し入った閑静な住宅街。 南側には程よく整備された公園があり、小さいながらも規則的に埋め尽くされた住宅街に「有効な余白」を作り出し、そして近隣住民を「つなぐ」役割を担っていた。 公園を有効に取り入れることと、公園に対して配慮ある計画をすることの両方を満た...
Akira Sakamoto Architect & Associates
House in Katsuyama
Okayama, 2007
Photos: Akira Sakamoto Architect & Associates-CASA
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Mejiro House
Tokyo, 2004
Basements are usually considered the part of the house where natural lighting is most difficult to attain; rooms located there tend to be...
TAKESHI HOSAKA architects
Love House
Yokohama City, Kanagawa, 2005
This is the house for a couple in 33m2 site. There is the open air room when you open the entrance door. This house is not like indoor n...
Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects
House with two facal points
Niigata, 2008
The house is located on the western edge of the Niigata plains. In this area, Mt. Yahiko and Mt. Kakuda rise about 600m above sea level,...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Water / Glass
Shizuoka, 1995
The design of this villa was influenced greatly by “Hyuga” Villa, the sole project which Bruno Taut had left in Japan. ...
Miurashin Architect+Associates
House at the Mountain
Karuizawa, Nagano, 2008
The site is located in a region of Karuizawa once marked off for development but now abandoned. A national forest borders the property, w...
Yo Yamagata Architects
YG
Kanagawa, 2008
The site is located on a gentle slope descending toward the west in the suburbs of Ebina City. When I first visited the site, I found the...
Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects
Cottage in Tsumari
Niigata, 2000
A public cottage located in the heaviest snowfall region in Japan, often as deep as 4 m. The architecture is composed of 2 volumes. "Big...