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Oct 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Kure city, Hiroshima, Japan
Program: Private House
Site area: 451.18 sqm
Building area: 109.43 sqm
Total floor area: 110.55 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Oct 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Hiroshima city, Hiroshima, Japan
Program: Wedding Hall
Site area: 1,816.46 sqm
Building area: 779 sqm
Total floor area: 1,241.86 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Oct 2009
By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Awards , Landscape , Mixed Use , News , Japan, Namba Parks, Osaka, The Jerde Partnership
The Jerde Partnership’s Namba Parks, in Osaka, Japan, was just named one of the winners of the Urban Land Institute’s 2009 Awards of Excellence: Asia Pacific competition. When asked to create a gateway to redefine Osaka’s identity, the architects responded with this project that would become a natural intervention in Osaka’s dense and harsh urban condition. The rooftop park offers a sloping park plane that is “bifurcated by a sinuous, open-air ‘canyon’ path that reinforces the connection with nature while forming the primary circulation pattern.”
More about the park after the break. read more »
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Oct 2009
By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Building Technology and Materials , News , Residential , EASTERN Design Office, Japan, Slit House
© Koichi Torimura
Designed for an 80 year old woman, EASTERN Design Office’s Slit House, a reinforced concrete residential project, “presents her both a life space with a soft light and an interesting experience of scale unlikely in a house.” Situated in an old Japanese city on a site 50 meters by 7.5 meters, the home has long slits that run along a 22 centimeter thick wall, making the interior space open, while providing enough privacy.
More about the home and more images after the break. read more »
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Oct 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Kure city, Hirosihima, Japan
Program: Clinic
Site area: 228.74 sqm
Building area: 172.50 sqm
Total floor area: 498.33 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Sep 2009
By Karen Cilento — Filed under: News , restaurant , Cafe la Miell, Japan, Niihama, Suppose Design Office
Located in Niihama in Ehime, Japan, the Café la Miell lacked the space needed to accommodate the number of daily customers. To combat this shortcoming, the client wished to open a new café across the street that would be able to hold 80 customers. To create the new Café la Miell, Suppose Design Office utilized the one meter drop of the site so that instead of having a standard two story café, as the client requested, the café would become a split level space with one floor at the building’s base level, and one at street level.
More about the cafe after the break.
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Sep 2009
By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing , Refurbishment , Selected , Ikeda Yukie Architects, Japan, Wood
Architects: Ikeda Yukie Architects / Ikeda Yukie, Ohno Toshiharu
Location: Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Program: House, Apartment
Project Area: 118.5 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Koichi Torimura & Ikeda Yukie Architects
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Sep 2009
With the exhibition “COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: Beyond the Blue” being recently closed at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA another single exhibition will be opened on September 18, 2009 at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] in Tokyo, Japan.
“COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: Future Revisited” is presenting two of the studio’s latest architectural experiments “Astro Balloon 1969 Revisited – Feedback Space” and “Brain City Lab”.
Date: September 19 – December 23, 2009
Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan
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Sep 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Otake city, Hiroshima, Japan
Program: Personal house
Site area: 372.63 sqm
Building area: 56.99 sqm
Total floor area: 115.51 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Sep 2009
Architects: Sinato – Chikara Ohno
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Use: Shop
Project year: 2009
Constructed area: 79 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano
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Aug 2009
Kiyonobu Nakagame & Associates designed a villa on the Boso Peninsula, east of Tokyo. Even though the residence is less that two hours from the city, the natural setting surrounding the home could not be any more different from the chaotic streets of the downtown Tokyo area. The secluded setting allows the home to take full advantage of the landscape and provide a great space for relaxation. The minimalistic design creates wide spacious areas to sit and become lost in the panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean to the front, and magnificent views of the mountain ranges in the back. “Having these [the views] in our mind, we came up with the design concept to provide the one continuous wall folded in different directions setting up the various views,” explained the architects. This continuous wall does not create a bulky structure that is intrusive on the landscape, but rather, the folded wall creates an elegant residence that embraces the surroundings by making the users focus on the natural instead of the built.
More images of the home after the break. read more »
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Aug 2009
By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Interiors , News , Retail , Diesel Denim Gallery, Japan, Nature Factory, Suppose Design Office
Suppose Design Office has just shared with us their latest work for the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama, Japan. While Makoto Tanijiri, the principle of Suppose, has designed over 60 residences (several of which we have featured previously on AD) his work also includes commercial and exhibition spaces. Tanijiri and Masaaki Takahashi, an independent writer and editor specializing in various fields of design and this exhibit’s curator, have created a gallery space for the Diesel clothing line. The Diesel Denim Gallery, the signature store of the brand name, functions as a gallery space for art installations and exhibits throughout the year showcasing talented rising artists. For this year’s store installation, Tanijiri has created an “innovative art space” entitled Nature Factory.
More about the Nature Factory after the break. read more »
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Aug 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Sakuragawa, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan
Program: Personal house
Site area: 50 sqm
Building area: 33.16 sqm
Total floor area: 91.01 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Aug 2009
By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Building Technology and Materials , News , Residential , House in Mukouyama, Japan, TSC Architects
TSC Architects have completed a 1,180 square ft single family residence in Ichinomiya City, Japan. The two story home is constructed primarily from reinforced concrete. The materiality gives a strong character to the residential design as the concrete creates a harsh and bold exterior. The architects do not attempt to soften that effect as the concrete stays exposed throughout the interiors. Slices of light illuminate the hard wood floors bringing a touch of warmth to the structure.
More images after the break. read more »
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Aug 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Saijo,Higashihiroshima,Hiroshima,Japan
Program: Personal house
Site area: 246 sqm
Building area: 50.41m
Total floor area: 115.51 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Jul 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Program: Personal house
Site area: 164.4 sqm
Building area: 60.42m
Total floor area: 113.62 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Jul 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan
Program: Personal house
Structure: Wooden structure, 2 stories
Site area: 174.75 sqm
Building area: 44.41m
Total floor area: 111.78 sqm
Design year: 2006-2008
Construction year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Jul 2009
Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Nagoya city, Aichi, Japan
Program: House with shop
Structure: Reinforced concrete structure, 3 stories
Site area: 84.09m
Building area: 44.41m
Total floor area: 103.60m (1st floor：38.80m 2nd floor：32.40m 3rd floor：32.40m)
Building coverage: 52.81% (max 60%)
Ratio of building volume to lot: 123.20% (max 200%)
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.
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Jul 2009
Architect: Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Location: Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Japan
Project team: Hideo Yaguchi, Azuma Orikasa
Collaborator: Asao Tokolo(façade design)
Structural Design: Arup Japan
Construction: Iwata Chizaki Construction Corporation Tohoku
Site Area: 377 sqm
Project Area: 1,977 sqm
Design Year: 2003-2006
Completion Date: 2007-2008
Photographs: Daici Ano
07
Jul 2009
We have featured some pretty peculiar houses on AD. Many of them come from Japan. So to start this week’s Round Up we bring you our first selection of houses in Japan.
House & Atelier / Atelier Bow-Wow
As it is hard to run 3 places including the university laboratory, we were looking for a site for our house and atelier and ‘a flag shape site’ was up for nomination. A flag shape site is surrounded by buildings and only connected to the road by a narrow strip of land. It is therefore hard to plan or construct on and it is cheaper. It is a chance to utilize our past experience having changed challenging conditions (read more…)
House in Kohoku / Torafu
This site is located in a quiet residential region reclaimed on a hill of Yokohama. With neighboring houses lined very close together, this flag-shaped site meets a road at a verge of no more than 3 meters in width. Since the site is tilted to the north, and the neighboring house to the south is two-storied and built on a higher ground, at first it seemed almost impossible to let in light from the south (read more…)
House N / Sou Fujimoto
A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain (read more…)
M house / Architecture W
Located in one of Nagoya’s more attractive neighborhoods, but with only 2.5 meters of dead end street access and set on a difficult site that steps down from this access level a total of 7 meters, M-House is designed to address the site conditions that rendered the site “unbuildable” by the local real estate community and provide for a simple, modern lifestyle for the American owner/architect (read more…)
White Cave / Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
The house is built on a hill looking down at a town area. The site’s shape has an irregular form. There is a height difference of 2m in the site. The north side is adjacent to a neighbor with this height difference. In the west and the south sides trees grow thick right next to the neighbors. And to the East, you can see the town area. Walking to the site through a path that goes side by side (read more…)
