Japan

Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Feature: Plywood Structure

Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum

Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
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 / Gallery
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‘s structure is made of one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor, allowing open spaces for...
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: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Ivy Structure 2

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The three-storied glass cube is connected at three corners to a full height ivy screen, which functions as the primary...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Nemunoki Children’s Art Museum

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
The main design focus for this children’s art museum was to create an ideal facility made of a material familiar...
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 3

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Ivy Structure 1

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
A narrow site is divided lengthwise into building and courtyard to create the Ivy Structure house. The construction method makes...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial

Paper Dome

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
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: Industrial
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

Nine Square Grid House

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Another development of the furniture house, the Nine-Square Grid House replaced the wood frames of the furniture units with steel....
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Hanegi Forest

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Inherently a three-story row-house complex, the Hanegi Forest succeeded in preserving every existing tree on the site. To ensure that...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Stage

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / 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: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 1997
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Mixed Use
Works
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Year: 1997
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Mixed Use

Big Roof Fukuroi

Year: 1997
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Mixed Use
The Big Roof unifies several leisure programs and creates intermediate spaces between inside and outside. All rooms open up to...
Year: 1997
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Mixed Use
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

Wall-less House

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
The Wall-less House sits on a mountain slope with the floor sloping upward to meet the roof, naturally absorbing the...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Tazawako Station

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
More than just a train station, Tazawako Station also offers various public facilities. The openness and transparency of the building...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

GC Dental Shows

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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 Design / Installation
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Nova Oshima Temporary Showroom

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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 Design / Installation
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 2

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Paper Church – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
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: Place of Worship
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Paper Log House – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

2/5 House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
The rectangular plan of the house is divided into five parallel, 5×15-metre rectangular zones: front yard, interior space, central courtyard,...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

Curtain Wall House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Because the client was used to living “downtown”, a house was created to reflect this traditional open lifestyle with contemporary...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

Paper House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

Furniture House 1

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
The concept for the Furniture House to use prefabricated furniture as structural and space defining elements originates from the Library...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

MDS Gallery

Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
This is a gallery made from a paper tube structure. All vertical loads are carried by the paper tubes and...
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

House for a Dentist

Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The rectangular plan of the House for a Dentist is divided lengthwise into a southern outdoor space and a northern...
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

House of Double-Roof

Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Built in a region with heavy snowfall, the second Case Study House sought to separate roof and ceiling. In order...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial

Dengyosha Factory at Hamura

Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
Budget constraints, a tight schedule, and the requirement to accommodate heavy machinery yielded a design with pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete slabs...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Complex by the Railroad

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Containing shops, offices, and housing, this complex sits on an irregular, pentagonal site flanked by a railroad line and a...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Housing at Shakuji Park

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
To create a sense of openness in the Housing at Shakujii Park, the axial shear wall was eliminated by arranging...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

PC Pile House

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Although the sloping site is as steep as 45 degrees in some locations, extra budget could not be alotted for...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Villa Kuru

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
With intentions of framing the extraordinary mountain landscape, a rough stone wall was placed parallel to the street to contrast...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

I House

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Anticipating future housing development in the area, the house’s square plan was rotated 45 degrees to expand views and garden...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Studio for vocalists

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Built in a dense residential area of Tokyo, noise and privacy were considered central design issues for the Studio for...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Library of a poet

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The paper tube truss of the East Gate of the Odawara Festival was again employed in the Library of a...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

East Gate of Odawara Festival

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Because building codes did not require official permits for the construction of gates, the East Gate of the Odawara Festival...
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Odawara festival main hall

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
To build a multipurpose hall for Odawara’s 50th anniversary, the city’s mayor requested timber architecture. Paper tubes were suggested instead...
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Paper arbor

Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Created for the 1989 Design Expo, the Paper Arbor is comprised of 48 water-proofed paper tubes that fit into a...
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Works
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Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Asia club pavillon

Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
For the 1989 Hiroshima Expo themed “Oceans and Islands” Asia Club requested a pavilion designed in an Asian style. A...
Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Zanotta exhibition

Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
A completely recyclable exhibition system was designed using paper tube walls and square paper tube frames with recycled paper honeycomb...
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housing
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Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

M residence

Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The M Residence fostered a further transformation of the “Three Walls” concept. An “L” shaped wall forms the interior, and...
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect

Three walls

Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
As the “Three Walls” concept developed, individual walls gained new expression and function. Light penetrates the glass or glass blocks...
Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingHousingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Villa K

Year: 1987
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Villa TCG

Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Alvaro Aalto exhibition

Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition containing furniture and glass works of Alvar Aalto was...
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsWorks
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Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Judith Turner Exhibition

Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
The exhibition of the works of New York photographer Judith Turner consisted of a flexible panel system that could be...
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation