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Light Up Coffee Shimokitazawa / Spicy Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The Extraordinary within the Ordinary - LIGHT UP COFFEE Shimokitazawa was originally a first-floor two-seat cafe and coffee roastery, with the second floor being used for storage. It has since been renovated into a 17-seat establishment with seating extended to the second floor. This marks the third design project for LIGHT UP COFFEE, a cafe concept born from the owner's desire to make the barista coffee experience more accessible and personal. The aim was to create a space where the extraordinary becomes a natural extension of everyday life, with two distinct experiences offered on either floor.

Ring on the Green Apartment / HAMS and, Studio

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is a renovation project of an architect's own residence. The 90 ㎡ floors on the second floor of the apartment building in a high-density residential area was planned as a base for the diverse activities of the architect: a residence, an office, a studio, and a showroom.

Jakuets Tokyo Matsubara Office / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

JAKUETS, headquartered in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, has 67 branches throughout Japan and is engaged in diverse educational businesses, ranging from the planning, development, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance of playground and educational equipment to the design of kindergartens, nursery schools, parks, and community development projects. In renovating the Tokyo branch, we made a plan for the future of the headquarters and its 67 branches, not just this one branch.

Higashi Tamagawa Apartment Complex / Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

A 19-unit housing complex of 25m2 apartments built along the main road in Setagaya, Tokyo. In recent years, there has been a trend in many fields to revisit the idea of possession, replacing it with the rent of a good. Therefore, the subscription plans started spreading in digital and real environments. This new perception of possession radically altered our approach and attachment to the same goods we subscribe for, somehow giving a sense of a shared property with future customers.

Drawer Balcony House / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The balcony protrudes toward the front road, creating a garden-like space in the air. It’s a 6.5-tatami mat or 12 sqm space with privacy and security in mind, where you can use in many ways such as enjoy outdoor dining, place pots of plants, drink beer in the evening breeze, or pull out a chair and read a book on a sunny day. The owner’s beloved car fits nicely under the balcony.

Le49Ⅱ Residence / APOLLO Architects & Associates

Hana Abdel — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Le49 II is a residence situated on a corner lot within a serene residential neighborhood in the heart of Tokyo. The client purchased a plot of land close to their daughter’s elementary school with the vision of building a residence that would allow for luxurious and comfortable family living while also providing an environment conducive to remote work.

SDJ Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro

Hana Abdel — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

In today’s society, children tend to be cut off from the local community due to the decline in local communities caused by the increasing number of nuclear families the declining birthrate, and the excessive security of urban nurseries, which often results in the loss of learning opportunities for children such as "independence" and "individuality" that are originally fostered through contact with the community.

TODAY’S SPECIAL Futakotamagawa Store / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0000

TODAY’S SPECIAL is a simple, not-too-fancy store evoking a sense of everyday life but offers the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime encounter. It gives one a sense of anticipation before even going to the store, like, "Maybe they have what I have been looking for if I go there." And when one goes there, it makes them feel, "Maybe this is what I really wanted."

House in Shimouma / I.R.A.

Thuto Vilakazi — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0000

This is a housing construction project for a family of four in a densely populated residential area in the center of Tokyo. The client desired a spacious living environment on this site, taking into consideration the site's topography with elevation differences, small lot size, and shading regulations, aiming for a space that feels more expansive.

Tamagawa Takashimaya Grand Patio / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

Hana Abdel — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Guided by a design concept of “Library & Art,” this renovation of a commercial building with a fifty-year history provides a place for community members to rest and relax. Our design transforms the spacious atrium into an intimate enclave that resembles a park in some places and a private library in others, offering opportunities for visitors to encounter books and art. Three primary elements compose the space: an assemblage of lights, shelves for encountering stories, and parklike greenery. Comprised of 669 bulbs and 1338 cords, the assemblage of lights is the most distinctive feature of the project. By varying the height of the suspended bulbs, we constructed four ceiling vaults between the columns. Bulbs are suspended like necklace pendants from two thin cords hung at convergent 40-degree angles.

House in Umegaoka / Container Design

Hana Abdel — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:00:00 +0000

The site is long and narrow from north to south, with a difference in elevation from the road. We can use it openly and spaciously because the line of sight from people and cars coming and going along the road is offset.

Folding Screen Row House / DOG

Hana Abdel — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This project is a four-unit row house including the owner's residence, located in Daita, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. Originally, a kindergarten was built on an about 600 sqm plot of land including the adjoining land to the north, which was demolished and inherited in sections to obtain a relatively rectangular plot of 300 sqm, on which home and rental house were built. The building was placed on the perimeter of the site to avoid using up the floor-area ratio and to reduce sound insulation between units, which is a weak point of wooden row houses, and the south side of the building was built as a one-story structure to allow sufficient light into the courtyard, which is also the approach to each unit.

Terada House / Terada Hirate Sekkei

Andreas Luco — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:00:00 +0000

The text will be published as received. Please double check the credits and spelling! Located within a quiet residential area near the Takaido Station in Tokyo is a black building nestled above a concrete platform. This building is in fact a house designed to accommodate a family of five (mother and father, their parents and their daughter). Just off the main road and through its main entrance are several steps which guides you down, with a diagonal wall to your left which would appear to penetrate the entire building upwards and through to the roof at the top.

Escenario Todoroki Building / Sasaki Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

This is a residential housing complex consisting of 16 units near the Todoroki ravine, the only ravine in central Tokyo. We wanted the façade to have some kind of correspondence with the Todoroki ravine as the surrounding environment. The building faces the main road, and the approach to the entrance, which is set back from the road, is a space that draws the visitor into a world reminiscent of the valley.

Neko House / GENETO

Hana Abdel — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The inhabitants are a family of a mother, two children and two cats. We created the project on a small landlocked plot of land surrounded by buildings for a family to live there with cats. This is not the first human-plus-animal home project, but it was the first time a project has focused on cats.

"small pond" Nursery / Naf Architect & Design

Hana Abdel — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Kamimachi SIZEN-NO-KUNI Day Care Center “small pond” is an affiliate of Day Care Center “small village” completed in 2014 by the same client. “small village” was designed to serve as a future small village where people of various generation and culture gather and mingle in the context of a local community in Tadao, Machida city, a suburban area in western Tokyo.

House With 5 Retaining Walls / Kiyoaki Takeda Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 11 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000

A new build house for a family of young couples and four children was requested at a site located in residential Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. Most of the neighboring houses were built on top of leveled land formed by enormous concrete walls to accommodate the hilly terrain. However, at this specified site, no preparation for construction had been carried out. Therefore, the earth itself with a rough slope – a height difference of 3.5m – was available. Several small areas were dug out to make the most of the terrain’s nature. Height differences in the ground level emerged by these digs, and various retaining walls to suit each level were designed. Then, “five small retaining walls” that merge nature and artefact appeared on site.

RHYTHM House / APOLLO Architects & Associates

Hana Abdel — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:00:00 +0000

A two-family house situated in a residential Tokyo neighborhood. While the living areas are completely separate, the construction features a rhythmically and holistically integrated façade that suits the characteristics of each household. By providing the parental household (consisting of two parents and a daughter) with a first-floor living-dining kitchen and placing cedar-textured bare concrete walls on the road side, this residence functions as a courtyard house that connects to the forecourt on the entrance side while ensuring privacy.