Timber and bamboo structures

Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House

86 Rue St Antoine

Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Within the historical “Marais” district of Paris, this apartment building sits on a narrow site flanking an existing fire wall....
Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Bamboo Roof

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure

Wickerwork House

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
This weekend house is composed of a glass box surmounted by a large woven plywood dome. Four structural plywood boards...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure

Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
There is a day care center, a hospital and traditional homes near the site. Since the size of the gymnasium...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Bamboo Furniture House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure

Church in Roppongi

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
The design of this Lutheran church strived to remain humble in response to the religious doctrine as well as the...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure

Imai Hospital Daycare Center

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
The woven LVL structure that was proposed in the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” (2000) was also used in this Daycare...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Veneer Grid Roof House

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Naked House

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure

Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum

Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
After the “Hannover Expo Japan Pavilion” the design for the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” was the second collaboration with Professor...
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Osaka Building

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
The building features one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor. Enclosed rooms with determined purposes are placed...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 3

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 2

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Furniture House 2 is the prototype of a two-story house employing furniture units as structural system. The furniture system used...
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Furniture House 1

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
By making factory built modularized furniture units (closets and bookshelves) that are 90cm wide and 2.4m high that can bear...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

I House

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Anticipating future housing development in the area, the house’s square-shaped plan was rotated 45 degrees from the site to maintain...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
House and housingHousingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Villa K

Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Like Villa TCG, Villa K is comprised of three walls. The curved wall stands firmly against the rolling mountains it...
Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Villa TCG

Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The “Three Walls” concept, which evolves in later works, defines the space within Villa TCG. A stone wall, referencing a...
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House