Renovation in Kitahama

Osaka, Japan, 2021

Full renovation of a room in a tower apartment. The plan is to make the limited private area as one room as much as possible. To synchron...

Renovation Residences in Maya

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 2020

Renovation of a 50-year-old house. A small detached house connected to the main house where the parents live was renovated for the childr...

Megamiyama Residence

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 2019

A project to reconstruct a dilapidated house. While retaining the front yard and approach to the site, the building is arranged over the ...

Tomigaoka Residence

Nara Prefecture, Japan, 2017

The plan of the house takes advantage of the difference in elevation between the site and the street to have each room skipped and connec...

UNICO bldg.

Hyogo, Japan, 2016

A complex building for a day service specializing in rehabilitation and a mental health clinic. The exterior walls are double-skinned wit...

House in Takatsuki

Takatsuki, Japan, 2016

The architectural program for this project was to rebuild a house in a residential subdivision developed about forty years ago. Many hous...

House in Matsuyacho

Osaka, Japan, 2016

This property is located in a densely developed residential neighborhood of Osaka. The client had lived on the site since childhood, so w...

KRAMPON

Hyogo, Japan, 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...

Riziere

Shiga, Japan, 2011

This café is located in a district where the age-old Japanese landscape of rice paddies dotted with traditional homes still exists...

House in Tendai

Kyoto, Japan, 2011

The client for this project dislikes direct sunlight, so the architects centered their design around his request that the house not be ov...

Town house in Sawaragicho

Kyoto, Japan, 2011

A remodel of an 80-year-old Kyoto “machiya,” or town house. By fitting a box made from 28mm plywood inside the existing frame...

Tutanaga House

Osaka, Japan, 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...

House in Miyayamadai

Osaka, Japan, 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...

K House

Osaka, Japan, 2008

When we designed this two-family home to replace an older structure, we left a cherry blossom tree standing in the garden as a way to lin...

Trapezoid

Hyogo, Japan, 2007

Building codes required that this structure, which combines a residence and a pottery studio, take on a trapezoidal shape. Within those c...

House in Shinkitajima

Osaka, Japan, 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.

Atelier in Hiuna

Hiroshima, Japan, 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...