House

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing

Maui Paper Log House

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief Project for 2023 Hawaii-Maui Wildfires Dec.4th-Dec.7th 2023 Collaborators:Hawaii Off-GridUniversity of Hawaiʻi Maui CollegeSchool of Architecture University of Hawaiʻi...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing
Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing
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Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing

Temporary housing in Marrakesh

Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing
2023 Morocco Earthquake Disaster Relief Coordination : Fayçal Tiaïba / Laberinto and FenduqCooperation : National School of Architecture of Marrakech...
Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Triangle Lattice House

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The client happened to acquire a narrow strip of land along the sand beach of Kitsuki, which was once used...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Shishi-iwa House No.2

Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Second project for “Shishi-iwa House” in Karuizawa. The simple two-story rectangular plan evolved from the very tight rectangular site. The...
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House

Bookshelf House

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House
A new living room is added to a cottage at the foot of Yatsugatake. On the gable side of the...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Shishi-iwa House No.1

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The site contains a forest unique to Karuizawa, in which beautiful trees grow densely, so I gently inserted the building...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Triangle House

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
To accommodate the triangular site shape and ensure design flexibility, the first floor uses a reinforced concrete waffle slab, while...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Vin Sante + N house

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
In Japan, the level of timber engineers and fabricators, and the development of timber engineering is far behind Europe, especially...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Kumamoto Wooden Prefabricated Temporary Housing

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake are a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 and 6.2, beneath Kumamoto City in the...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

House of Light and Shadow

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The site is a typical residential area and this house was designed to experience the seasonal changes and the passage...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Nepal House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
In order to respond to the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25th, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) and Shigeru Ban...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Solid Cedar House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Low cost 120mm square cedar timber is stacked, similar to a log house. These walls are unified vertically by steel...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Paper Temporary Shelter

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House
This is the temporary shelter constructed at Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines, following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in November of 2013....
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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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
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

House Vision 1 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: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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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: 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

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: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

Villa Vista

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
A position on top of a hill was found where three different views could be framed. Approaching the site along...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
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

Metal Shutter House

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Most of the warehouses and galleries in the Chelsea area of New York become a district of shuttered facades at...
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

Make It Right 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
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House

Quinta Botanica

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House
Owned by an art and plant collector, Quinta Botanica overlooks the ocean from a cliff in Algarve, the southernmost region...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
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

Sagaponac House

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
The plan is based on an analysis of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Brick Country House (1924), reinterpreted according...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House

Kirinda House – Tsunami reconstruction project

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
In order to help the victims of the tsunami in 2004, 80 houses and a mosque were planned to recreate...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
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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
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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
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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
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

Bamboo Furniture 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: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
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

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: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
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

Veneer Grid Roof 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: 2001
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
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Naked 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: House
Feature: Case Study House
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

Furniture House 3

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...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
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

Nine Square Grid 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: House
Feature: Case Study House
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

Wall-Less 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: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
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

Furniture House 2

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: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
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

2/5 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
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

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

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

Furniture House 1

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...
Year: 1995
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
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

House of Double-Roof

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...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store

Complex by the Railroad

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
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: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
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

PC Pile 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...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House