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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

PAPER PARTITION SYSTEM 4 (PPS4) -Landslide in Hiroshima-

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On 20th August 2014, heavy rainfall struck Hiroshima City, Japan which caused huge landslides forcing over 1600 residents to evacuate...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier

Disaster Relief Center in Kyoto University of Art and Design

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
At Kyoto University of Art & Design, a temporary studio of ‘Paper Structure’ was constructed once again by the students...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
House and housingHousesTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Villa at Sengokubara

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
This two-story timber structure residence is situated on a site with a narrow street front and a broader clearing deeper...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Exhibition DesignsHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

House Vision Furniture House

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Instead of being supported by conventional columns and walls, this “Furniture House” is supported structurally by the furniture itself, creating...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

“Architecture and Humanitarian Activities” Exhibition

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This is the first large scale individual exhibition, consisting of not only small models images, and photographs, but of full...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store

T-2000 Project

Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
To create a comfortable and homely environment, a timber structure, “house of furniture” is proposed. By providing the required shelving...
Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Irving Penn and Issey Miyake Exhibition

Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This exhibition was designed to display sketches and posters produced by Irving Penn, in collaboration with Issey Miyake. The exhibition...
Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure

Community Center – Onagawa

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
By stacking the container temporary housing on the site, wide building intervals were achieved, and the design for the community...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Maison Hermès Pavilion

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The concept of the pavilion was to create a nomadic exhibition structure easy to assemble and disassemble; all the structure...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housing
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Onagawa Container House

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Since the 3.11 earthquake, we have visited more than 50 evacuation facilities and during that time, we heard the news...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / East Japan Earthquake

Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima / Yamagata / Niigata / Nagano / Tochigi, JapanThe evacuees of the great Japan Earthquake...
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant

Kushinoya

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Located in the Daimaru department store in Osaka Station. The façade is veiled in an ethereal white string curtain that...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housing
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

House at Hanegi Park – Vista

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The site is located at the top of a sloped street on the corner of an L-shaped bend. Looking back...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station

Hakushima New Station

Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
The triangular plaza that symbolizes the delta of the old Oota River and the Mori Clan family crest is covered...
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
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Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Akira Kurosawa Memorial

Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
This project was planned to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa in 2010. The “Akira Kurosawa...
Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School

Seikei Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Located on the Seikei University Campus, the Seikei Elementary School is terraced to the south to allow ample sunlight into...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Tea House

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The Paper tea house is made of square paper tubes. Walls are connected by a steel rod and the roof...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Works
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Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store

Louis Vuitton Osaka Midosuji Maison

Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
The design concept of this project is the architecturalization of traditional Japanese Wickerwork technology as a relationship to the cultivated...
Year: 2007
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory

GC Oyama Factory

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
The GC Oyama Factory is a 2-storey facility for a dental equipment manufacturer, on a 851 square meter site with...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Nicolas G. Hayek Center

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The entire facade facing Ginza Street is covered with a glass shutter, allowing a three floor atrium to transform into...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Nomadic Museum – Tokyo

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library

Seikei University Library

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
In order to make it easier for students to gather, the big atrium space was made more flexible to allow...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Vierendeel Dormitory

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
The structure of this company dormitory is organized by two parallel Vierendeel trusses that sit on eight columns, and a...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House

Atelier for a Glass Artist

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
For this glass artist’s atelier, an off-the-shelf steel angle shelf system was employed as the main structural system that is...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Works
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Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Cinema Complex Nagaoka

Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
The design of this commercial building, primarily a cinema complex, unifies diverse leisure facilities into one establishment. By making the...
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Works
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Veloqx Akasaka

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Escalators spiral around the oval Veloqx building housing restaurants, bars and cafes at all floors, offering 360 degree panoramic views...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Itabaschi Headquarters

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Running parallel to the streets on the east and west, the two wings of the GC building are united by...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

GC Nagoya Building

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
“GC Nagoya Building” is an office for a dental equipment corporation that contains office spaces, a seminar facility, and a...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Plastic Bottle Structure

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
House and housing
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure

Hanegi Forest Annex

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
In order to guarantee sufficient parking space at the ground level, the one story high steel frame structure of the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Shutter House for a Photographer

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
This is one in a series of projects utilizing stacking glass shutters. The plan is organized from interior spaces and...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housing
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Glass Shutter House

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the height of the neighboring buildings and occupies half of the...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade