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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, Japanese architecture, Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect
The Number House by Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect & Associates is the residential project which is comprising of 4 houses located in Hozumidai, Osaka, Japan. This is a mass-produced type ready-built house often developed on a large scale, and as such, has the advantage of producing entire housing of rows. In many cases, as the appearance [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected Tags: Japanese architecture, Random pattern, TOFU
Japanese architect TOFU has created the N House located in villa subdivision areas in Otsu, Shiga, Japan. There are rich natural environments with Lake Biwa in the southeast and Mount Hira in the northwest, so in the first stage, TOFU have decided to use cedar panels as exterior materials. The exterior wall is colored with [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japanese architecture, TOFU
Y House is a small house designed by Japanese architect TOFU in Obama, Fukui, Japan. There is a vacant lot around the site. So, by creating a large window on the second floor, it is possible to see paddy fields, mountains, sky and feel to spread over a floor area. This plan has high ceilings [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Japanese architecture, Stair, White
Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada recently has completed the Narrow House in downtown, Abeno-ward, Osaka, JAPAN. Background, Atmosphere The location is Abeno-ward Osaka, JAPAN. Though it is a superb location just 10 minutes from Tennoji Station, it is in the downtown streets filled with traditional emotion, there are traditional tenement houses, old houses and shops, just [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Takeshi Hamada
Takeshi Hamada has completed the interior design “Office A“. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Interior design, Adaptable Office This is a law office planned in the first floor in social building, located in the suburb of Osaka. The concept of this plan is “Adaptable Office”. There are a lot of situations, and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Timber
Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada has completed the House D in Osaka, JAPAN. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Narrow Housing,, Young Owner Background and Environmental Atmosphere The housing is located in the place from one block from the main street in Osaka’s suburb, and I cannot say it’s a calm. There are a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Random pattern, Stair, White, yHa
Japanese architectural firm yHa architects has recently completed the YNH house located in Tokyo, Japan. The facade has “autonomously” opening system grid-like continuous pattern and its size are “heteronomously” translated in relation to views or surrounding environment or interior function. yujin HIRASE, founder of yHa architects + Project description by yHa architects I thought mainly [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Japan, Japanese architecture, Terminal01, Timber
Japanese studio Terminal01 has completed a house in Kitasaya located in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. “void” was placed at the center of the house, which is the main space of the house. This space is open up to the sky…family can feel the cycle of the seasons, weather, light, and so on, through this void space, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Landscape architecture, Minimalism, Stair, Takashi Yamaguchi, White
Japanese architect Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates has designed a house in Ise, Japan. The building is composed of two volumes arranged in parallel. A vertical void links the rooftop terrace and the light court on the first floor, drawing nature into the interior. Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates + Project description by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Fluid form, Japan, Japanese architecture, Studio Velocity, White
Japanese architectural firm Studio Velocity designed a curved building located in Nagoya city, Japan. The shape of the building is something like the volume of the entrance door stretched, and the section at the entrance is only the size of the door. However, the section becomes larger both vertically and horizontally, as one walks into [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: D.I.G Architects, Japan, Japanese architecture
M House, a small house was built on a narrow site designed by D.I.G Architects. The width of the site is 5m, just the same as the street in front, and the house is even narrowed down into 3m width tubular space. This tubular space separates into two branches, one protrudes straight in the air [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare, Selected Tags: Clinic, D.I.G Architects, Folding architecture, Japan, Japanese architecture, White
Designed by Japanese firm D.I.G Architects, the Majima Clinic was developed based on the concept of “ORIGAMI”. The space under the “ORIGAMI” paper, “ORIGAMI” is the wall or the roof and the eaves. the folding “paper” generate the gap and opening, and the folding operation generate the ambiguous border between the open space and the [...]
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