As a temporary structure of at most 10 years was requested, recyclable and reusable materials were used for the building....
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Plywood Structure
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:
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:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Situated next to a train station, the Eda housing complex incorporates a commercial area. To take in the flow of...
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Feature:
Plywood Structure
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:
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:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
·
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container 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
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
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:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Plywood Structure
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:
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:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Commercial Facility
Year:
1997
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Commercial Facility
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:
Commercial Facility
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...
Two walls on the east and west create an open space that allows for a good north-south breeze which forms...
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
Exhibition
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
Exhibition
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
Exhibition
