House
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Year:
2020
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
A new living room is added to a cottage at the foot of Yatsugatake. On the gable side of the...
This is a prototype for developing a housing system for a 50m² house to be built for 5 million yen...
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House

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Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
House
Feature:
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:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House

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Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
The site is at the top of a slight hill, on the corner of an L-shaped street. Looking back down...
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Sri Lanka
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Picture Window House

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Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Sri Lanka
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Picture Window House
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Sri Lanka
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Picture Window House
Located on a hilltop site facing the ocean, the floor, walls and ceiling of this building frame three different views....
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade

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Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
The Metal Shutter House is a residential condominium with a gallery space on the ground floor. The building is located...
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

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Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Hurricane Katrina, which occurred in August 2005, caused enormous damage to the City of New Orleans. In December 2007, the...
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
The site for the house is on typical developed land, with an alleyway to the south and a highway to...
This site is located on the northern slope of a villa area in South Hakone. The scenery to the north...
Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
British West Indies
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
British West Indies
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
The proposed layout for this exclusive villa arranges all interior spaces along a curvilinear path stretching throughout the site. The...
Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
British West Indies
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
British West Indies
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
British West Indies
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
For this development of 17 beach villas, two different types of main houses and one complementary floating house were proposed....
Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
British West Indies
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2007
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

Year:
2007
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
The Villa is located in a prominent 7,000m2 site in the countryside near the south west city of Devon, England....
Year:
2007
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House

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Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
The Sagaponac House is based on the plan of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Brick Country House (1924), reinterpreted...
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
Year:
2006
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

Year:
2006
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
This residence is designed to meet the special conditions of its vast, undulating site opening up to the Atlantic Ocean....
Year:
2006
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
The Mul(ti)houses reference the first social housing projects built in Mulhouse, which unified four housing units back to back on...
Year:
2005
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

Year:
2005
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
The roof of this boomerang house swoops through the scattered trees, floating in the landscape like an airplane wing in...
Year:
2005
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Frequent break-ins during off-season into vacant villas in the resort area of Puglia prompted the client to request a house...
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade

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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
Belonging to a series of houses with stacking shutters, the Shutter House for a Photographer is organized on a checkered...
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Plywood Structure

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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:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House

Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Inspired by the location’s unique topography, the abundance of trees and rocks on the site, and the surrounding New England...
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study 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:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House

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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 main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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

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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...
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

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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...
A narrow site is divided lengthwise into building and courtyard to create the Ivy Structure house. The construction method makes...
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Case Study House

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Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
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:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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 Wall-less House sits on a mountain slope with the floor sloping upward to meet the roof, naturally absorbing the...
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House

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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:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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 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
Feature:
Case Study House

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Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
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:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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

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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 concept for the Furniture House to use prefabricated furniture as structural and space defining elements originates from the Library...
The rectangular plan of the House for a Dentist is divided lengthwise into a southern outdoor space and a northern...
Year:
1993
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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, the second Case Study House sought to separate roof and ceiling. In order...
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:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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
Although the sloping site is as steep as 45 degrees in some locations, extra budget could not be alotted for...
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:
House
Feature:
Case Study House

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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 plan was rotated 45 degrees to expand views and garden...
Built in a dense residential area of Tokyo, noise and privacy were considered central design issues for the Studio for...
Walls facing east and west define the space of Villa Torii, harmonizing interior and exterior by inviting the sun and...