Projects
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Shirokane House
Tokyo, 2013
The site for this residence is surrounded on four sides by other buildings. Working within those conditions, the architects maximized the...
Architectural Lighting Group (ALG)
Forest / Floor
Nagano, 2001
Lighting design for a new guest house. This small guest house in resort area of Karuizawa represents Kuma’s unique a...
LEVEL Architects
House in Fukasawa
Setagaya, Tokyo, 2013
The design makes optimum use of a long, thin building site with a 3.6-meter frontage. While conveying a sense of freedom and relaxation, ...
LEVEL Architects
House in Ofuna
Kanagawa, 2012
By carving into this pyramid-shaped structure with its peak on the western side, the architects opened up lines of sight while maintainin...
LEVEL Architects
House in Shibuya
Tokyo, 2011
This home features a skateboard bank ramp and piano room. The skateboard ramp is connected to an exterior garden, as well as to the eleva...
LEVEL Architects
House in Monzennakacho
Tokyo, 2011
When the architects visited the building site for this home they were struck by the sight of the Oyoko River running just beyond the next...
LEVEL Architects
House in Fuji
Shizuoka, 2011
In order to take advantage of the unique landscape on the northern side of the site, which includes a sloped hillside as well as a park,...
LEVEL Architects
House in Todoroki
Tokyo, 2011
A 3.3-meter cantilever juts out over the entryway of this house, which has no windows in its façade. In contrast, a south-facing, V-shape...
LEVEL Architects
House in Oimachi
Tokyo, 2010
With a frontage measuring 3.6 meters and a depth of 11.8 meters, this type of small home is nicknamed an “eel’s cave” in Japanese. Despit...
APOLLO / 黒崎敏
NEUT
東京, 2012
眼科医のご夫婦は心おきなく趣味の音楽鑑賞を楽しめる家を建てるために、閑静な住宅街に間口が小さく奥行きの深い土地を購入。RC造外断熱工法で 設えた地下のスタジオには中庭を設け、遮音性を配慮した二重ガラスを使用することで騒音問題を解決している。ドライエリアを介して注ぎ込まれる光...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Fukasawa House
Tokyo, 2011
Wood architecture involves inherent limitations, such as the fact that spans cannot easily exceed a certain width, but those limitations ...
荒谷省午建築研究所
天台の家
京都, 2011
直射光を嫌った建主の要望から、明るすぎない居住空間をテーマとした。一つのボリュームを分割するように設けた光庭は、垂直のスリットとして通風と採光の機能を担う。また屋根をボリュームから少し浮かせてハイサイドライトを設け、水平のスリットとして間接光を取り入れている。
荒谷省午建築研究所
KRAMPON
兵庫, 2012
高低差12mもある斜面地に建てられた住宅。硬い岩盤質の敷地のコンタラインに沿って３つのボリュームを斜面に引っ掛けるように置き、それらを三角形の階段空間で繋いでいる。敷地に覆い被さるようにあった既存の桜の大木を下から見上げるようにトップライトを設けている。
Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects
House in Nagaoka
Nagaoka-city, Niigata, 2010
The house is located at the center of the city that belongs to one of the regions with the heaviest snow in Japan. The old laundry facto...
Akio Nakasa / Naf Architect & Design
House Snapped
Saitama, 2012
Two buildings, large and small, stand on L-shape plot adjoining at the corner. The form of the two buildings comes is as if one building ...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Okazaki House
Aichi, 2012
The interior floor levels in this residence are adjusted in response to the elevation of the fields and Japanese garden adjoining it. A s...
Kiyotoshi Mori + Natsuko Kawamura / MDS
Yatsugatake Villa
Yamanashi, 2012
Situated in the foothills of Mt. Yatsugatake, this vacation home gently incorporates the natural environment around it. The fan-shaped de...
Airhouse／桐山啓一
養老の家
岐阜, 2012
岐阜県養老郡における農具倉庫をコンバージョン(用途を変更)した住宅。クライアントの要望は、家族の気配が常に感じられる空間、料理が好きなので大きなキッチン、閉じこもらない子供部屋、写真撮影の背景になるような白い壁、というようなものであった。限られた予算の中で考えていったときに...