Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
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
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Atelier
Feature:
Case Study House
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:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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
·
Year:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
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
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Housing Complex
Feature:
Plywood Structure
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
·
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
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
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:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Gymnasium
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Gymnasium
Feature:
Plywood Structure
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:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
The site is at the top of a small hill that extends out from the sea, so the architecture itself...
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
·
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
For the 924 m2 contemporary gallery, an existing structure was renovated. The structural flame was conserved as is, with all...
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
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:
Nursery School
Feature:
Plywood Structure
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
·
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study 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:
2000
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
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
A home for a three-generation family. The exterior walls are made of two layers of alternating corrugated FRP, and the...
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Wooden Fire Protection
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Wooden Fire Protection
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
The three-storied glass cube is connected at three corners to a full height ivy screen, which functions as the primary...
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
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...
The site is divided lengthwise into two elongated halves, with the southern half as exterior space and the northern half...
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented...
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
The timber frame of the “Furniture House 1” system is replaced with steel studs to compose the Nine Square Grid...
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
This is an apartment complex composed in a row-house format of individual three-story units. To realize the given condition of...
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
“Wall-less House” sits on a sloped site with the floor slab at the rear of the mountain side, curving up...
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
This project was started from 1996 and had continued for 8 years. Dental exhibitions took place every 2 months where...
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1996
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
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:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in...
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
The design criteria for the temporary housing for the Kobe Earthquake victims called for an inexpensive structure that could be...
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
The rectangular site of the house is divided into five equal 15m × 5m rectangles. On two locations, a second...
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
This is an attempt at using modern materials to preserve the adjustable interior exterior spatial continuity found in the old...
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
The first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
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...
The narrow, rectangular shaped site is divided in two lengthwise areas and the southern half is used for the exterior...
Year:
1993
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1993
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1993
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Built in a region with heavy snowfall, this second case study house sought to avoid increasing the member sizes of...
A simple rectangular volume containing a reinforced concrete structure shop, office, and residence has been inserted into an irregular pentagonal...
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
·
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Instead of forming each unit by lining up parallel walls, all 9 walls were arranged in an S-shape configuration. Additionally,...
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1992
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
The sloping site was extremely steep in some locations, even greater than 45 degrees, and there was no extra budget...
The theme for this project was to explore how the extraordinary mountain scenery can be seen from the site. The...
Year:
1991
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
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...
Built in a dense residential area of Tokyo, noise and privacy were considered central design issues for the Studio for...
