© Toshihiro Sobajima
The site of the Mebius house is located ten minutes away from Kamakura. To the West it is surrounded by a mountain range. To the South and East are an Urbanization Control Area. This restricts all future building in those areas. Thus the promise of unspoiled surrounding greenery made for a highly appealing site.
Architect: Atelier Tekuto
Location: Kamakura, Japan
Photographs: Toshihiro Sobajima
© Kai Nakamura
Architects: LEVEL Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project Year: 338.55 sqm
Project Area: 2010
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
© Mitsutomo Matsunami
Architects: Mitsutomo Matsunami
Location: Kishigawa, Japan
Project area: 161,66 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Mitsutomo Matsunami
© Courtesy of Jun Igarashi Architects
Architects: Jun Igarashi Architects
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Project Area: 71.54 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Jun Igarashi Architects
© LEVEL Architects
Architects: LEVEL Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 180.09 sqm
Photographs: LEVEL Architects
© Toshihiro Sobajima
Although Atelier Tekuto’s “Relocation” project has been underway since 2007, Yachiyo is the first “Relocation” building completed in Japan. The building is situated 100 meters from the ocean in Hayama, Kanagawa prefecture. This is used as a secondary residence and temporary shop.
Architect: Atelier Tekuto
Location: Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Photographs: Toshihiro Sobajima
© Iwan Baan
Architects: Jun Igarashi Architects
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 161.78 sqm
Photographs: Iwan Baan
© Makoto Yoshida
Architects: LEVEL Architects
Location: Shizuoka, Japan
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 193.91 sqm
Photographs: Makoto Yoshida
© Courtesy of Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
Architects: Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 99.16 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
© Shinichi Tanaka
Architects: LEVEL Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 163.69 sqm
Photographs: LEVEL Architects, Shinichi Tanaka
© Courtesy of LEVEL Architects
Architects: LEVEL Architects
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 155.54 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of LEVEL Architects
Architects: Mitsutomo Matsunami
Location: Hyogo, Japan
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 89.35 sqm
Photographs: Mitsutomo Matsunami
Courtesy WDG Architecture
The American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Young Architects Forum (YAF) and Committee on Design (COD) have selected the recipients of the second annual YAF/COD Ideas Competition, sponsored by TOTO. Results in addition to images of the awarded projects with brief narratives from the designers can be found after the break.
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© Eiji Tomita
Architects: NRM-Architects Office - Shunichiro Ninomiya + Tomoko Morodome
Location: Osaka, Japan
Project area: 170 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Eiji Tomita
© Yuko Tada
Architects: Akinari Tanaka
Location: Aichi, Japan
Project area: 483 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Yuko Tada
© Makoto Yoshida
The site is located near the center of Tokyo. It is a small 44m2 corner plot bounded by two streets. Conforming to legal conditions and in response to the client’s wish for a ‘roofed garage’ the volume was trimmed from various directions. Using the words ‘Mineral’ and ‘reflection’ as guiding concepts, Atelier Tekuto proceeded to use subtraction as a positive tool for design.
Architect: Atelier Tekuto
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Photographs: Makoto Yoshida
© Daici Ano
Architects: Sou Fujimoto
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Client: Musashino Art University
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 2,883.18 sqm
Photographs: Daici Ano
One of the most interesting projects I’ve seen in a while, the Musashino Art University Museum & Library proposes a new relation between the user and the books, surrounded and sheltered by them. We had the chance to ask Sou Fujimoto about the challenge of designing this program in the information age, as you can see on the above video.
More info after the break:
© Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects
With an earth floor and a glass roof this building, design by Takashi Fujino of Ikimono Architects, experiments with the limits between inside and outside. This is a reoccurring theme among many of Ikimono Architects’s projects. Tradeoffs are enviable in a building of this kind, such as having to use an umbrella to access to the bathroom when it is raining and the hassles that come with an earth floor. The payoffs come in the form of being able to grow plants inside through the floor, gaze at the clouds and stars, listen to the sound of the rain and smell the scent of spring flowers.
Architectural Design: Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects
Location: Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
General Contractors: Kenchikusha Shiki Inc.
Landscaping: Atsuo Ota / ACID NATURE 0220
Structural Engineer: Akira Suzuki / ASA
Roof: Safety glass shatterproof
Structure: Reinforced concrete
Use: Office + Residential
Exterior: Reinforced concrete
Project Area: 177.18 sqm (site), 61.93 sqm (building area), 61.93 sqm (floor area)
Design Year: 2007-2010
Project Year: 2010-2011
Photographs: Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects
© Satoshi Asakawa
Architects: Coelacanth K&H Architects / Kazumi KUDO + Hiroshi HORIBA
Location: Kanazawa city, Japan
Client : Kanazawa City
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 2,311.91 sqm
Photographs: Satoshi Asakawa
© Masao Nishikawa
Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
Location: Uonuma, Japan
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 99.50 sqm
Photographs: Masao Nishikawa
OMA… sent us an absolutely fascinating book that tells the history of the Japanese architecture movement known as Metabolism. “Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism, together with dozens of their
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