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...